Bellini and the Sphinx
✍ Scribed by Tony Belloto
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Included in Chicago Review of Books 's list of Winter's Best Thrillers
"Bellini and the Sphinx is the American debut for the wildly popular Sao Paulo-based crime series written by Bellotto, the celebrated Brazilian guitarist and writer. His private eye, Remo Bellini, is a conscious homage to Philip Marlowe and the classic noir American detectives, but with an identity all his own and a milieu, the streets of Sao Paulo, that are as alive and mysterious as any you'll come across in the genre. American readers have waited too long for this, but they'll finally get the chance to visit Brazil through Bellotto/Bellini's eyes."
--_Literary Hub_
Included in _CrimeReads_ 's List of The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019
"Originally published in Portuguese in 1995, Bellotto's series opener introduces Remo Bellini, a private eye in the tradition of Spade and Marlowe but distinctively Brazilian...Bellotto's detective, less ironic...