Black Widow's Wardrobe : A Gloria Damasco Mystery

by Lucha Corpi

Overview

Was it a spectre from the past that inspired the "Black Widow" to kill her husband? Or did the chilling murders in this Gloria Damasco Mystery have to do with greed? Damasco, the Chicana detective with a flair for clairvoyance, unravels this intrincate and pulsing plot that takes her from an exotic Day of the Dead celebration in San Francisco to the even more exotic sites and customs of Tepozotlán, an Indian village high in the mountains above Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611926071
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	09/30/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	530,268
File size:	252 KB

About the Author

Lucha Corpi is an internationally renowned poet, novelist, and children’s book author. In addition to a memoir, Confessions of a Book Burner: Personal Essays and Stories (March 2014), she is the author of several mystery novels published by Arte Público Press: Death at Solstice: A Gloria Damasco Mystery (2009), Eulogy for a Brown Angel (2002), Black Widow’s Wardrobe (1999), Cactus Blood (1995), and Crimson Moon (2004). Loa a un angel de piel morena (2012) is the pioneering first installment in the Gloria Damasco Mystery series now availbale in Spanish. Her first poetry collection, reissued by Arte Público Press in 2001, is entitled Palabras de mediodía / Noon Words (2001). A Piñata Books picture book for children, The Triple Banana Split Boy / El niño goloso was published in 2009. Copri is the recipient of numerous awards and citations, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize in fiction, and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Book Award of Excellence in Adult Fiction. She was a tenured teacher in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program for over 30 years.