by Stanley Ellin · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429720259
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«Cal saber encaixar» is a crime novel by Stanley Ellin, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (120 pages, in Catalan).
A sixteen-year-old boy decides to avenge his father's humiliation and pursues the journalist responsible through nocturnal New York. The chase lasts all night and takes him from Madison Square Garden to boxing bars, a boîte, and the apartment of two women, while his innocence fades and returning home demands he prove himself a man.
Edition from the Seleccions de la Cua de Palla collection (number 24), with Catalan translation by Ramon Folch i Camarasa. The work was originally published as «Dreadful Summit» in 1948.
For readers of noir and crime fiction seeking classics with an urban, nocturnal atmosphere.
Stanley Bernard Ellin was an American mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a brief tenure in the Army, at the insistence of his wife, Ellin began writing full time. While his novels are acclaimed, he is best known for his short stories. In May 1948, his first sale, and one of Ellin's most famous short stories, "The Specialty of the House", appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
