by Horace McCoy · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429724745
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«Els sudaris no tenen butxaques» is the crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Edicions 62 in 1986 in paperback (192 pages, in Catalan).
Set during the Great Depression, it tells the story of Mike Dolan, a journalist who leaves his job at a newspaper to found «Cosmopolite», a magazine through which to expose the city's corruption. As it gains traction, Dolan clashes with the established powers and his crusade ends up confronting him with growing violence.
The novel was originally published in English as «No Pockets in a Shroud» (1937). This edition belongs to the collection «Seleccions de la Cua de Palla».
A read for those seeking 1930s crime fiction with social and journalistic undertones.
Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
