Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has an unusual speciality: helping distraught authors who are frantically in search of characters who've quit the page and assumed a life of their own. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people in their place.
Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has an unusual speciality: helping distraught authors who are frantically in search of characters who've quit the page and assumed a life of their own. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people in their place.
Born in Asturias in 1963, Rafael Reig studied Philosophy and Humanities in Madrid and later in New York, where he wrote his PhD thesis on 19th-century literary depictions of the prostitute. Today Reig combines university teaching with his writing and editing activities. His latest novel is Guapa de cara ('A Pretty Face'), published in 2004. Blood on the Saddle is the first of his novels to be translated into English.
Hilarious, a literary Hellzapoppin
*Matt Thorne*
A wonderful confection of humour, surrealism and mystery
*peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a
sideline in purloined X-rays? Time Magazine*
Hilarious, a literary Hellzapoppin * Matt Thorne *
A wonderful confection of humour, surrealism and mystery -- The
Times ?A refreshingly unconventional little book which takes the
crime novel into a new dimension? a gloriously absurd spoof,
amusing, provocative and occasionally touching? Sunday Telegraph
?Eccentric, dizzying and wonderful? Peter Guttridge, Obs * peppered
with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in
purloined X-rays? Time Magazine *
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