Leonardo Padura
1) Herejes
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
Español
Description
In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis spent several days anchored at Havana while waiting for the Cuban authorities to allow 900 Jewish refugees from Germany into their country. Confident that a painting by Rembrandt that had belonged to their family since the 17th century--and which they had smuggled on board the ship--would convince the Cubans to let them in, little Daniel Kaminsky and his uncle waited at the dock for their relatives to disembark. But the...
4) Heretics
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the...
6) Havana red
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history"-- Provided by publisher.
Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money. Rescue comes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Los melómanos son curiosos e impertinentes, quieren saberlo todo del género que aman y no descansan hasta encontrar lo que buscan. Las crónicas del Caribe se han hecho a través de las canciones y eso lo sabe bien Leonardo Padura quien le ha tomado el pulso a un género que ha sido discutido desde su propio naci - miento, a comienzos de los años 70. A través de la conversación con sus protagonistas, el autor nos regala un bellísimo retrato...
10) Havana gold
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world's oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop. From a pool of over 3,000 considered stories published last year--anything that touched on crime, mystery, and suspense, from venues as disparate as The Strand Magazine, Dark Yonder, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Bellevue Literary Review, and more--these are the very best, selected...
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