Mario Conde Investigates: Havana Red (Paperback)

from grheault

DNF. Did not finish. When I read a book the music of the language is as important to me as the words themselves (sort of like me. In this book and in Hanvana Black, I found the translation painful thus never got to the story. I felt like I was deciphering every sentence to figure out its meaning,...

from csweder

Not good or bad, but it definitely has the feel of a Latin American story (if I could say what that is, I would, but it's a general sense more than something I can define). This is the story of detective Mario Conde, as he struggles in the Cuban heat, to discover the killer of a young male transv...

from Hagelstein

A murder mystery set in Havana by a Cuban author, Havana Red was first published in Spanish under the name Mascaras (Masks). The story goes beyond crime fiction, delving into the murky world of homosexuals and their persecution by the Cuban government. Mario Conde, "The Count", is a lapsed writer...

from Hagelstein

A murder mystery set in Havana by a Cuban author, Havana Red was first published in Spanish under the name Mascaras (Masks). The story goes beyond crime fiction, delving into the murky world of homosexuals and their persecution by the Cuban government. Mario Conde, "The Count", is a lapsed writer...