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Palos Verdes Blue Hits the Italian Strade! (SEE UPDATE BELOW!)
Mondadori Press, the biggest in Italy, has chosen PVBlue for their Giallo series, a homage to the pulp fiction and noir novels of the past, though these yellow-cover editions have been in kiosks in their thousands on the Italian strade since 1929.
Some samples are shown below:
I will post more when the Italian cover and text of Palos Verdes Blue are available.
*UPDATE: I SEEM TO HAVE UPSTAGED MYSELF!
And without realizing it. (See cover below.) Last year, another branch of Mondadori seems to have published The Dark Streets -- though with a bizarre robots-on-fire cover and with the wrong title. I think Strade di Fuoco means "Streets on Fire," which was an entirely different Jack Liffey novel from 2002. But, what the hell. I'm pretty sure the book is The Dark Streets. The description of the book from their website, translated from Italian by a quaint and rather Joycean on-line robot is:
"Los Angeles, town of the angels falls. And vanished. Soon-Lin, young and sensual student, is an of them. Disappeared in the glistening multicultural maze of Koreatown. On its track is put Jack Liffey, hard private investigator. But I am in several to want that those it traces they remain losers for always: from a gigantic Korean conglomerate to the same Department of police of Los Angeles; from a notorious subversive group Asian to the squads d' asalto dell' FBI. And while the bodies themselves accumulate, Liffey sinks in a whirl that could put in game the safety national of the United Staes."
