- Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Murder, Investigation, Asesinato
The brutal murder of Chrysalis, the glass-skinned queen of the Joker underworld, leads Ace private investigator Jay Ackroyd and the Yeoman, who has been framed for the crime, to search for the killer.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Editorial Oceano de Mexico, Tor, Gollancz
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781466824393
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