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Date: 1990

Portada de G is for Gumshoe de Sue Grafton
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Crime Crime G is for Gumshoe

Sue Grafton

1990

It's the fifth of May and Kinsey is celebrating her 33rd birthday. One of her presents is a call from a fellow detective warning her that she's made the hit list of Tyrone Patty (a killer she helped track down) and suggesting she hire a bodyguard. But Kinsey has better things to do with her money. Instead, she takes on her next case - tracking down her new client's eccentric mother who is missing from her trailer home on the edge of the Mojave Desert. But before she can get very far in the case, K

Portada de The Trash of Influences de Francisco Ibáñez

Humor Humor The Trash of Influences

Francisco Ibáñez

1990

This comic marks the end of the "black stage" of Ibáñez, increasing the quality of the drawing. In addition, from this comic book, the new adventures of the characters are reedited in the collection "Magos del Humor." In addition, this comic book is the first in which it is a topical theme by personalizing the protagonists of it (for example the character of Juanito Batalla is a transunto of Juan Guerra) The press took note of the issue, giving it publicity to the

Portada de The NO-VEL Award de Francisco Ibáñez

Humor Humor The NO-VEL Award

Francisco Ibáñez

1990

A Chinese drug dealer named Ten- go- pee just got out of jail. He wants to take revenge on the society that imprisoned him, and as in thirty years he sees nothing, he creates through his fortune The No-Vel Prize (an imitation of the Nobel Prize).

Portada de Postmortem de Patricia Cornwell

Crime Crime Postmortem

Patricia Cornwell

1990

A brutal killer terrorizes Richmond, Virginia, leaving three women strangled but without pattern of conduct, as the killer leaves very few traces. So Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called to investigate this series of brutal murders just when there's a fourth victim and she's afraid there's still more.

Portada de Shadows in Bronze (Falco 2) de Lindsey Davis

Crime Crime Shadows in Bronze (Falco 2)

Lindsey Davis

1990

Any day in the '70s. C., without special events for a man like Marco Didio Falco: get rid of some other body, follow the lead of a plot against the emperor or get some small profit by dealing with stolen lead. But the routine work of the most sarcastic and disdeceived researcher of Imperial Rome turns around when chance puts him on the trail of Barnadas, a strange character who seems to have something personal against Didio Falco.

Portada de Nightfall de Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction Science fiction Nightfall

Isaac Asimov

1990

The planet Kalgash is on the brink of chaos, but only a few people have noticed it. Kalgash knows only the life day light, for for more than two millennia the combination of its six suns has illuminated the sky. However, now the darkness is beginning to reign.

Portada de The Body in the Closet de Mary Higgins Clark

Mystery Mystery The Body in the Closet

Mary Higgins Clark

1990

Alvirah and Willy got the lottery. Since then, they have been engaged in unravelling enigmas and crimes, robberies, abductions and seemingly irresolvable killings. In a body in the closet, an actress dies and everyone considers Brian, Willy's nephew, the main suspect.

Portada de Beyond the Fall of Night de Arthur Charles Clarke

Science fiction Science fiction Beyond the Fall of Night

Arthur Charles Clarke

1990

Diaspar is the last inhabited city on Earth. Trembling and inexperienced, the only existing human beings live stalled in the terror of their own history, whose greatness is only preserved in the beauty of the old city and in the memories of the unspeakable machines that guard it. These survivors have lost any motivation to claim their world; their dreams do not go beyond the high wall around the city. Just like your builders planned.

Portada de Your master love de Juan Eslava Galán

Humor Humor Your master love

Juan Eslava Galán

1990

This novel tells a child's school parishioners in his awakening to adolescence, back in the post-war years. The disgraced mischief, the ingenious events and inscribes that save the life of Vicentito González, highlighting on a lively backdrop, of which teachers and schoolchildren are part.

Portada de The Pale Criminal de Philip Kerr

Crime Crime The Pale Criminal

Philip Kerr

1990

In Palido criminal Bernie Gunther, despite his no sympathy for the Nazis, he is forced by SS General Reinhard Heydrich to rejoin the Kripo with the mission of hunting a psychopath who has raped, tortured and killed several Aryan adolescents. Under the command of his friend Kriminaldirektor Arthur Nebe and with the rank of Commissioner, Gunther returns to an increasingly close police officer to the Gestapo and initiates a counter-watch investigation to prevent the killer from continuing to kill. But the investigation will be complicated when it involves several relevant SS members interested in occult who have a special hatred of Jews, such as Otto Rahn, Karl Maria Wiligut or Heinrich Himmler himself.

Portada de Eric de Terry Pratchett

Humor Humor Eric

Terry Pratchett

1990

The only demonology hacker in Mundosta, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of the inhabitants of ankh-Morpork. This Fausto seeker is very bad at his job.

Portada de Moving pictures de Terry Pratchett

Humor Humor Moving pictures

Terry Pratchett

1990

The world alchemists are doing their own again. This time, they've discovered the secret to get gold from the silver... or rather, from the silver screen. And following the Hollywood siren song will be Victor Tugelbend, a reconverted magician project to figurative. He doesn't sing, he doesn't dance, but he knows how to handle the sword (a little) and now he wants to be famous.

Portada de The eye of the world de Robert Jordan

Fantasy Fantasy The eye of the world

Robert Jordan

1990

In the remote village of Campo de Emond, in the region of the Two Rios, Rand al'Thor leads a simple life as a farmer with his father Tam. But on the night of Bel Tine, the calm is broken when the trollocs attack the village. During the flight, Tam is seriously injured, and Rand is forced to take him to the people for help, while discovers that violence has spread throughout the region. Shortly after, a mysterious woman named Moiraine, accompanied by her guardian Lan, reveals that the attack has not been fortuitous: Rand and two other young people in the village are the target of the Shadow forces. To save Campo de Emond and its inhabitants, the boys must leave their home and take a long journey.