Jerry wrote, in response to Anthony:
>Maybe you're referring to Paco Taibo II, who was born
in Spain, lives in
>Mexico, and heads up Semana Negra in Gijon (Spain)
each July.
Yep, that's gotta be who Anthony's referring too. I haven't
read all the way up to that point, yet, but I know Taibo
bumps off his P.I., Hector Belascoran Shayne, and then brings
him back in a subsequent book, supposedly without even
pausing to comment on it. But I think he only does this
once.
But the series is well worth reading, both for the
sharply-etched picture it paints of Mexican culture and
society (a far cry from the standard "let's go down to
Tijuana and get drunk and fuck whores" jaunt that way too
many novels in the genre fall back on), its altogether
too-human detective (give or take a little rising from the
dead) and for the sometimes surrealistic edge Taibo brings to
his noir morality plays.
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