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Robert Skinner

    Robert Skinner se enfoca en el estilo de prosa de la ficción pulp y de crimen estadounidense, con un énfasis particular en la obra del novelista afroamericano Chester Himes. Su enfoque está profundamente arraigado en la investigación histórica y la bibliotecología, lo que le permite profundizar en la literatura de género con rigor académico. Skinner explora temas de anonimato, marginación urbana y la búsqueda de identidad dentro de los paisajes crudos de las ciudades estadounidenses. A través de su trabajo, ofrece nuevas perspectivas sobre la evolución de la ficción criminal y su comentario social.

    Pale Shadow: A Wesley Farrel Novel
    • 2003

      Pale Shadow: A Wesley Farrel Novel

      • 226 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Autumn, 1940--Linda Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. New Orleans' Police Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of the black woman's death until a Treasury Agent arrives on the scene. He lets Daggett know that Linda was the girlfriend of a bootlegger-turned counterfeiter, one Luis Martinez. Daggett's first find Luis.Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Wesley Farrell is looking for Luis Martinez for his own reasons.Luis is really in hot water. Not only are the cops and Farrell giving chase, but he's on the run from a blonde Spaniard named Santiago Compasso, the boss of the counterfeiting gang. Luis has run off with the key to the operation--the painstakingly constructed plates that produce twenty- and fifty-dollar bills so good they've got the boys at Engraving and Printing jealous. Compasso is worried, not only because his operation is loused up, but because he has someone of his own to answer to....Now Farrell's in a contest with both the police and Compasso to find his amigo and discover the reason behind the doublcross--if a mysterious unseen assassin doesn't get there ahead of him.

      Pale Shadow: A Wesley Farrel Novel