The Argentine Novela Negra Critiques the 1990S in El Vuelo de la Reina by Tomas Eloy Martinez and El Muerto Indiscreto by Ruben Correa

Argentine journalist Miguel Bonasso has noted that Raymond Chandler would have been hard put to create a fictional plot that could outdo Argentine reality: En la Argentina contemporanea, el novelista policial Raymond Chandler se hubiera muerto de hambre, porque le hubiera costado encontrar una trama mas negra, perversa, intrincada y decadente que la que suministran los medios a diario. ("A manera de prologo" no pag.)