by James M. Cain · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401443084
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«Ligeramente escarlata» is the crime novel by James M. Cain published in 1990 by Plaza & Janés in paperback (252 pages, in Spanish).
The story is set in Lake City, a town where gangster Solly Caspar bribes the mayor and the police. Former football player Ben Grace goes from being the boss's chauffeur to running the gang; when Caspar kills the editor of a local newspaper and flees to Mexico, ambition and political corruption steer the plot.
The novel belongs to the collection «La genuina novela negra Black», number 8. It was originally published in 1942 as Love's Lovely Counterfeit.
For fans of classic crime and detective fiction and of the authors who influenced American film noir.
James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
