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Houston, Texas, U.S.A.: Arte Publico Pr, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's second mystery featuring the return of Chicana detective Gloria Damasco. "...Upon learning that Sonny Mares, an old friend and fellow activist in the United Farmworkers Strike and grape boycott of 1973, has committed suicide, Damasco is immediately suspicious-especially when she and a fellow investigator (also a former activist) go to Sonny's apartment and discover a videotape of a pesticide tank being blown up-and a bunch of grapes. Gloria, who struggles with the mixed blessing of being able to foresee the future, is also plagued by dreams of a young woman in trouble. As two other friends from the grape-boycott days disappear and a young woman who was raped and suffered pesticide poisoning resurfaces after many years, it becomes clear that a time of reckoning with the past is at hand. Corpi writes convincingly about Gloria's attempts to interpret her visions and does a fine job depicting decent… Read More

N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. While investigating a Chicago journalist's murder, Sergeant Terry Flynn and Detective Karen Kovac are pressured by sensation-mongering newspapers, the state attorney, a messianic Black group accused of the crime, and the Chicago political machine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

WARNER BROS., 1996. The second Sonny Braca mystery set in the Southeast. Something is wrong at the annual Hot Baloon Festival in Alburquerque.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Warner Books Inc, 1995. 1st edition, June 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. . SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at the title page. Author's 1st mystery. Hillerman has called him the Godfather of Chicano Literature. Set in Alburquerque. "Called a founding father of Chicano literature in English, the author of Bless Me, Ultima and Alburquerque tries his hand at detective fiction but continues to shine brightest with his trademark alchemy: blending Spanish, Mexican and Indian cultures to evoke the distinctively fecund spiritual terrain of his part of the Southwest. Here Sonny Baca, a 30-year-old fledgling PI, [a great-grandson of the fabled lawman Elfego Baca] investigates the murder of his prima, Gloria Dominic, the cousin who many years before had introduced him to love. Gloria's husband is worried most about the effect of the gruesome death (Gloria's body is found drained of blood,… Read More