by Fredric Brown · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401443114
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«El Asesinato como Diversión» is the crime novel by Fredric Brown, published by Plaza & Janés in 1990 in paperback (253 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is a delirious mix of black humour, suspense, alcohol and nightmare: young Ed gets caught up in a criminal plot in which murder is treated as a macabre game. Fredric Brown plays with the conventions of crime fiction and keeps the tension with ironic twists and a disconcerting tone.
It belongs to the collection «Black, la genuina novela negra» (no. 11); the original title is «Murder Can Be Fun». Translation by Celia Filipetto.
An option for those who appreciate classic crime fiction with an ironic and unconventional tone.
Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. One of his stories, "Arena", was adapted into a 1967 episode of the American television series Star Trek.
