Graham Blackburn: 4 books

Handsome Derek Davis, a promising but bored editor at a stuffy London publishing house, is unexpectedly sent to New York at the same time as he learns he could inherit a LOT of money if a mysterious legatee, perhaps also in New York, is not located within ninety days. Simultaneously, his artist girlfriend...

Tango as a metaphor for life, love, and ultimate fulfillment. False arrests, Cornish moors, the London art scene, the sybaritic South of France, Los Angeles, New York, and Buenos Aires at night — does all this add up to the ultimate tango prize?Juan-Miguel Rodriguez, raised by his grandparents in...

In 1961 Generalíssimo Franco is still dictator of Spain and Roger Coulter is on his way to Madrid with the beauiful Sarah to write ‘The Castilian Suite’. Youthful enthusiasm is no match for the harsh realities of life, however, and composing gives way to a hand-to-mouth existence of scalping...

With a world becoming more overcrowded every day something has to be done — by someone — if we are to survive with any semblance of humanity. This suspenseful mystery tracks the eforts of a well-meaning (but misguided?) professor to do just that. Working secretly with relief agencies in catastrophic...