Female Corpses in Crime Fiction by Glen S. Close

Author:Glen S. Close
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319990132
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

8On the endings of Jorge Franco’s novel and of Emilio Maillé’s 2005 film adaptation, see my article “Rosario Tijeras: Femme Fatale in Thrall.”

9Since I have commented on Collazos and Martini in Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction (64–9 and 197 n7), I will not undertake full readings here.

10The female judge’s participation in the novel’s opening scene of cadaver inspection and her glimpse at the corpse’s private parts (15) take on added significance when the novel reveals the judge to have met the victim at an orgy on a yacht and to have been complicit in her killing (209, 216–19). In the opening scene, one of the Guardia Civil officers initially interprets the judge’s evident anger as a reaction to the men’s irreverent ogling of Heydrich’s body, an offense to the dignity of the female sex (18). This would stand as a more effective moral reproach to the necrophilic pleasure of the other characters if the judge did not later confess to feeling no remorse over the death of such a destructive beast as Heydrich (219).

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