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Name: Havana Fever

Author: Leonardo Padura
Year: 2003
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Fiction, Mystery, Noir

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ISBNs:
9781904738367
1904738362

Mario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunters of the night. In the book collection of a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s who disappeared mysteriously. A murder soon follows. This is a crime story set in today's darker Cuba, but it is also an evocation of the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where the paths of Marlon Brando and Meyer Lansky crossed.

This book is part of the "Mario Conde" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Havana Blue"
First published in 1991
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"Havana Gold"
First published in 1991
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