The Resource Secret identity : a novel, Alex Segura
Secret identity : a novel, Alex Segura
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The item Secret identity : a novel, Alex Segura represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Secret identity : a novel, Alex Segura represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250801746
- Label
- Secret identity : a novel
- Title
- Secret identity
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Alex Segura
- Subject
-
- Cartoonists -- Fiction
- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueComic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction
- Comic strip characters
- Comic strip characters -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- trueMurder investigation
- trueNew York City
- Novels
- truePlagiarism
- truePolice
- trueSecrets
- trueStealing
- Superheroes
- trueSuperheroes
- Superheroes -- Fiction
- trueWomen amateur detectives
- trueWomen artists
- Authorship
- Authorship -- Fiction
- Cartoonists
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 11042836
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Segura, Alex
- Credits note
- Comic book sequence artwork by Sandy Jarrell, lettering by Taylor Esposito
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/letterer
- WQlAkpcupLs
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Jarrell, Sandy
- Esposito, Taylor
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Authorship
- Cartoonists
- Murder
- Superheroes
- Comic strip characters
- Authorship
- Cartoonists
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comic strip characters
- Murder
- Superheroes
- Label
- Secret identity : a novel, Alex Segura
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1246145203
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250801746
- Lccn
- 2021041614
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1246145203
- Label
- Secret identity : a novel, Alex Segura
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1246145203
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250801746
- Lccn
- 2021041614
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1246145203
Subject
- Cartoonists -- Fiction
- Comic books, strips, etc
- trueComic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction
- Comic strip characters
- Comic strip characters -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- trueMurder investigation
- trueNew York City
- Novels
- truePlagiarism
- truePolice
- trueSecrets
- trueStealing
- Superheroes
- trueSuperheroes
- Superheroes -- Fiction
- trueWomen amateur detectives
- trueWomen artists
- Authorship
- Authorship -- Fiction
- Cartoonists
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