by Horace McCoy · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446028420
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«Los sudarios no tienen bolsillos» is the crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Ediciones Akal in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Mike Dolan, a journalist whose reports are silenced, founds the weekly Cosmopolite with Eddie Bishop and Myra Barnowski. He exposes scandals such as a rigged baseball team, a doctor performing illegal abortions, and a sect with nocturnal rituals. His crusade for truth clashes with those who prefer to buy his silence.
Volume 189 of the Básica de Bolsillo collection from Ediciones Akal, published in February 2009. Original title: No Pockets in a Shroud.
For those seeking a classic of American crime fiction with a backdrop of social criticism about the press and power.
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.
