True stories of crime in modern Mexico / 
[compiled by] Robert Buffington, Pablo Piccato. 
 - Albuquerque :  University of New Mexico Press,  2009. 
 - xi, 276 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Dialogos series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Crime stories / Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato -- Tales of two women : the narrative construction of Porfirian reality / Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato -- I was a man of pleasure, I can't deny it : histories of Josâe de Jesâus Negrete, a.k.a. "The tiger of Santa Julia" / Elisa Speckman Guerra -- A sense of the tragic in life : text and context in Mexico City's general insane asylum / Cristina Rivera-Garza -- The girl who killed a senator : femininity and the public sphere in postrevolutionary Mexico / Pablo Piccato -- Who killed Roberto Gonzâalez? : murder, radicalism, and Catholic nationalism in postrevolutionary Michoacâan / Christopher R. Boyer -- Of intersections and parallel lives : Josâe de Leâon Toral and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Renato Gonzâalez Mello -- The case of the murdering beauty : narrative construction, beauty pageants, and the postrevolutionary Mexican national myth (1921-1931) / Vâictor M. Macâias-Gonzâalez -- Mothers of invention : narratives of maternity, paternity, and modernity in early Twentieth-Century Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826345295 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0826345298 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008043155 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA918340  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014910027  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories, Mexican--History and criticism.<br/>Detective and mystery stories, Mexican.<br/>Novela policíaca mexicana.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ 7207  / T866 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>863/.087209972