I was Dora Suarez
I Was Dora Suarez is a thriller by the British writer Derek Raymond and was released in 1990 under the title I Was Dora Suarez . It is the fourth volume in the Factory series, which preceded with He died with his eyes open , The Devil Has Home Leave and How the Dead Live .
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The story of the police novel, which takes place in the city's pimp milieu from 1970 to 1989, begins with the young, attractive prostitute and nightclub singer Dora Suarez being found dead in an apartment in South Kensington . She was mutilated and slain by an unknown ax murderer. Furthermore, Dora's neighbor Betty Carstairs, an 86-year-old widow, is murdered in a similarly brutal manner. That same night, Felix Roatta, a partner in the run-down Parallel Club (a kind of “ AIDS brothel ”), died in London's West End from a shot with a pump gun . The investigating police detective, who is not named in the novel, discovers that the murder of Dora Suarez must have been a highly bizarre act, because the perpetrator obviously ate parts of her body and ejaculated on her thigh . The subsequent autopsy found that Suarez suffered from an AIDS disease in the final stage and would have died from it very soon without her violent death. In order to achieve a successful manhunt, the nameless detective is put back into the police service, because he is trusted, based on his experience, to solve the case. The policeman, who feels a strong empathy with the victim and ultimately develops a morbid, almost obsessive love affair with the murdered person, tries to identify with the mind of the perpetrator in order to track him down. The motives that led to her death are with the sentence: " And Suarez was killed because she was beautiful, poor and sick and in need of our mercy, and we did not show any, may our country be ashamed of it ." Circumscribed. At the beginning there are no clues that could lead to the arrest of the perpetrator. Only the melancholy diary entries by Dora Suarez and a photo of a hostess who also worked in this disreputable club ultimately provide the connection between the killed prostitute and the nightclub owner Roatta. In the Parallel Club, the investigators of the police special unit FACTORY (also A14) discover a degenerate world of inhuman exploitation and hopelessness. With the help of a journalist, the killer, the sadomasochistic bouncer of the Parallel Club, can ultimately be exposed. The detective ends up shooting him with his service pistol.
Reviews
The highly controversial book by Derek Raymond is published on Krimicouch with “In search of the killer, he drills himself obsessively into the shadows of a degenerate society that are beyond our imagination. This book is defined in the entire genre a radical milestone of the Brit Noir, a literary rampage, the artistically and morally next level. " Described. Other critics define the work as "the toughest, dirtiest, most depressing material I have ever read". The tenor of the work, which far surpasses similar books of the genre in cruelty, is expressed by a quote from the nameless main character: "The public only wants the dirty contours, not the intimate, disgusting details". The New York Times titled Raymond's detective novel "Everything about I Was Dora Suarez shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far." - "Everything in I Was Dora Suarez cries out for the joy and pain of having gone too far."
Awards
In 1991 Ich war Dora Suarez won the 7th German Crime Prize, International category.
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- Derek Raymond: Ich war Dora Suarez , German translation by Gabriele Kunstmann (published by Black Lizard Books / Frank Nowatzki Verlag, Berlin and by MAAS Verlag; Edition: 2, December 2000), OT “I Was Dora Suarez”, Pulp Master Verlag, 1990, ISBN 978-3929010701
Individual evidence
- ↑ Krimis: Lust am Gemetzel, DER SPIEGEL, 27/1991 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Book presentation of I was Dora Suarez on Krimicouch
- ↑ Book review of I was Dora Suarez on book meeting
- ↑ I was Dora Suarez on a pearl diver
- ^ Derek Raymond: I was Dora Suarez, Black Lizard books / Frank Nowatzki Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3929010701 , p. 173
- ↑ Critique of I was Dora Suarez ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Derek Raymond: I was Dora Suarez, Black Lizard Books / Frank Nowatzki Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3929010701 , p. 193
- ↑ I was Dora Suarez on Goodreads
- ↑ List of awards of the German Crime Prize ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
