| International Standard Book Number |
1250801745 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250801746 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23/eng/20211007
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| Personal Name |
Segura, Alex, 1980- author.
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| Title Statement |
Secret identity : a novel / Alex Segura.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Flatiron Books, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn't matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call "The Lethal Lynx," Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he's found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that's complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living. Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authorship Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Cartoonists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Comic books, strips, etc. Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Comic strip characters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Superheroes Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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