by Peter Straub · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422647393
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«La Garganta» is the suspense and horror novel by Peter Straub, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (692 pages, in Spanish).
In 1950, a city in Illinois is the scene of a series of murders attributed to «Rosa Azul»; the case is closed when it is believed the perpetrator has committed suicide. Forty years later, similar crimes reappear and two men investigate the connection between the two eras to solve the case.
Third installment of the Blue Rose trilogy; translation by Ana María de la Fuente of the original «The Throat». Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1993.
For fans of crime fiction and mystery, with a detective plot connecting two eras.
Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.
