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The Detective Carvalho Bundle

Part of Melville International Crime

Meet Pepe Carvalho, the gastronome-detective whom The times described as “the most metaphysical gumshoe on the streets”:

SOUTHERN SEAS
TATTOO
OFF SIDE
THE BUENOS AIRES QUINTET
MURDER IN THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
THE ANGST-RIDDEN EXECUTIVE

 

Born in Barcelona in 1939, MANUEL VÁZQUEZ MONTALBÁN (1939–2003) was a member of Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya (PSUC), and was jailed by the Franco government for four years for supporting a miners’ strike. A columnist for Madrid’s El País, as well as a prolific poet, playwright, and essayist, Vázquez Montalbán was also a well-known gourmand who wrote often about food. The nineteen novels in his Pepe Carvalho series have won international acclaim, including the Planeta prize (1979) and the International Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1981), both forSouthern Seas. He died in 2003 in Thailand, on his way home to Barcelona.

NICK CAISTOR’S translations from the Spanish and the Portuguese include works by José Saramago and Paulo Coelho, and he is the author of Che Guevara: A Life.

“Montalbán writes with authority and compassion – a Le Carré-like sorrow.” – Publishers Weekly
Montalbán’s work is an exemplar of how crime novels can be used to analyse shifts in society.” —The Guardian
“Pepe Carvalho is a phlegmatic investigator. His greatest concern is with his stomach, but when not pursuing delicacies, he can unravel the most tangled of mysteries?” -The Sunday Times

“Montalbán is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed.”Times Literary Supplement

“A sharp observer of the high and the low …” —Detectives Beyond Borders

“Montalbán presents a riveting detective narrative which quite naturally covers the country’s social and political history from the military dictatorship onwards, exposing the hidden power and corruption beneath the facade of democracy.” —The Barcelona Review

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