The fourth instalment in Herman Portocarero´s  "A Crime A City" detective novella series.
A young, free-lance prostitute is found murdered in a closed room in one of Central Havana's grand but dilapidated 1920s apartment buildings.
The case is given scant attention by the police. Neither violent crime nor prostitution are publicly acknowledged even to exist.
But a female inspector, risen in the ranks
against the culture of machismo by sheer talent and willpower, gets obsessed with the case and pursues it tenaciously.
Step by step she deciphers the life of the murdered girl, who had come to Havana from faraway Guantanamo to seek her luck . In a completely original variant of the 'locked room mystery, it's also the secret life of the city the inspector has to penetrate to solve the case.
A fascinating set of characters illustrates the real Havana, as it exists way beyond
tired political slogans and the stereotypes of tourism
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