Belascoarán Shayne, detective

Something rotten is in the air in Mexico City: corruption and death walk loose hand in hand and Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, a self-retired engineer turned independent detective, sets out to solve the most varied cases, full of unique characters. Pun-prone stranglers, erotic actresses with wayward daughters, romantically suicidal teenagers, nostalgic fighters, and even a CIA agent. These two volumes compile the nine novels that make up the series of the best-known detective in Mexican detective fiction, which has given rise to a Netflix series, and confirm, in the words of Carlos Zanón, that Paco Ignacio Taibo II is "a classic, one of the greats".