A few years ago, the writer José Luis Bartolomé imagined a curious municipal agent, an incorruptible character, halfway between a Murri peasant and a hero from Tramuntana, to star in one of his black genre books and set them in Palau- saverdera, the town where he lives.
The latest book starring this character, Kidnapping in Bellevue and other intrigues by Sergeant Nofre McCow, includes five longer and more elaborate stories, there are some new things: the corps has been professionalized and there is equity between men and women and they now have own barracks
What remains, says the author, is “irony and humor”. The most relevant change in the stories, he adds, “is that they now take place in a Palace that belongs to the independent republic of Catiungla”.
The stories of the Kidnapping in Bellevue and other intrigues of Sergeant Nofre McCow are set in different corners of the town such as the Bellavista housing estate, the cooperative, the town hall meeting room and some surrounding towns. A Greek island also appears and there is talk of the already closed feldspar and quartz mines on the border with Roses and of impossible situations such as the fact that Dalí and Lorca visited the town.
After the presentation of the book in Palau-saverdera, this past Saturday, the author plans to do the same in the Figueres library.