Manos sucias

Each heart-pounding, fast-paced story in this collection features lively writing and young characters who come into contact with the tricks and illusions on life's darker side. A child loses his head inside a pumpkin. A skin-crawling spider spell is cast on a sorcerer's apprentice. A visit to the hospital for a tonsillectomy takes a ghoulish turn. Each story begins with an author's introduction that explains how the idea for it came to him, and features a spooky illustration by artists such as Edward Koren and Bleu Turrell. Historias más sombrías jamás contadas son reunidas en este libro...

Karter Healey "Masella" has known since he was a kid that he wanted to be a detective, but he never imagined how hard that road would be. He's one of the best undercover agents on the force, but he's still not respected. If he can take down the Dom Roselli, the leader of the Roselli mob, then he'll get the respect he deserves. Genevieve Roselli may love her family, but she hates what they stand for and what they do. Once she was old enough to understand the 'family business, ' she wanted nothing to do with it. She let to create a new life, but the unsolved murder of her brother, Leo, brings...

Algunos casos te dan dolor de cabeza. Por ejemplo, el de una religiosa secuestrada en un convento de clausura, o el de un hombre al que no le gustan los negros buscando a su hija negra. Tambien hay casos que te pueden hacer perder la cabeza, como el robo de un famoso cuadro en el que el principal sospechoso es el hombre de blanco que manda en el Vaticano. Y situaciones que te traen de cabeza, como el tener una prostituta kosovar durmiendo en tu casa... sin haberla invitado. El detective Angel Esquius puede hacer frente a eso y todo mas. Pero esta vez, si quiere salir vivo del embrollo en que...

Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction, rendering the 19th century as if he'd witnessed it firsthand. He employs words like "caoutchouc," "meerschaums" and "anapestic" as fluently as he uses Gothic tropes. Landor is attacked in the dark woods and in a dark closet. Messengers drive phaetons. There's black magic, phrenology, a profusion of ghosts, even a boat trip through torch-lit mist. But none of it seems musty. Bayard does what all those ads for historical tourist destinations promise: as Landor says at death's door, "the past comes on with all the force of the present."