Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Spanish author who created the immensely popular Pepe Carvalho detective series, using crime fiction as a vehicle for political and gastronomic commentary on post-Franco Spain. Murder in the Central Committee is among his finest novels.
Works
- Murder in the Central CommitteeSpanish crime novel following a communist detective investigating political murder
- Southern Seas
- The Pianist
- An Olympic DeathSpanish mystery of assassination plot surrounding Barcelona's Olympic Games
- GalindezSpanish novel exploring political disappearance and CIA involvement in Latin America