The Dead Girls
  • Published:
    Dec-1982
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    156
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With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm Tóibín

Opening with a crime of passion after a years-long love affair has soured, The Dead Girls soon plunges into an investigation of something even darker: Serafina Baladro and her sister run a successful brothel business in a small town, so successful that they begin to expand. But when business starts to falter, life in the brothel turns ugly, and slowly, girls start disappearing . . .

Based on real events, the story of serial-killing brothel owners Delfina and María de Jésus González, whose crimes were uncovered in 1964, The Dead Girls is a deliciously satirical black comedy - a potent blend of sex and mayhem. Written in the laconic tones of a police report, it cleverly uncovers the hopeless pedantry of a broken justice system, and the dark world of prostitution.
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    •  
    • Oct-2019
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1509870172
    • ISBN13: 9781509870172
    • First Edition
    • Dec-1982
    • Avon
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0380816121
    • ISBN13: 9780380816125
    •  
    • Jul-2018
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1509870180
    • ISBN13: 9781509870189



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