by Horace McCoy · Diagonal Barcelona · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495808936
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«¿Acaso no matan a los caballos?» is the crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Diagonal Barcelona in hardback (169 pages, in Spanish).
Set in California during the Great Depression, it follows thousands of people competing in dance marathons for days, with barely any rest and seven daily meals, in exchange for lodging and a cash prize. Gloria and Robert take part in one of these contests as a way to earn a living, and soon discover the contest's conditions.
The original was published in 1935 under the title They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; this edition is from the Clásicos Gimlet II collection.
For fans of crime fiction and classics of American literature.
Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
