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"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

Relatos breves, sin orden, sin etiquetas. Todas las historias de este libro son ficción y no tienen ninguna relación con personas de la vida real... o tal vez... ¿si?

Bert Amandale is a horror novelist; he lives in Provence with his wife and teenage daughter. His best friend, Chucks Basil -a rock star- decides to move to Provence, and things start to get complicated, due to Chucks' dark past and his difficult relationship with Bert's wife. This book's frantic, murky plot renders it a masterful work of psychological intrigue.

Selección, traducción y notas de Rodolfo Martínez Si Edgard Allan Poe inventa el relato policiaco con " Los crímenes de la calle Morgue", es Arthur Conan Doyle quien lo convierte en un género maduro y adulto con el que es, sin duda, el mejor detective consultor del mundo: Sherlock Holmes, residente en Baker Street, Londres. En esta selección, Rodolfo Martínez recopila y traduce sus dieciséis relatos favoritos de Conan Doyle protagonizados por Holmes. En ellos el lector podrá encontrar algunos de los más brillantes momentos del detective junto con el retrato, impresionista pero...