Gloria Demasco
Created by Lucha Corpi

GLORIA DEMASCO is a petite Chicana, born in Oakland, California. She came from a working
class family, and was trained as a speech therapist. She's a young widow (she was married to a Puerto Rican, Nuerriqueño) with a daughter .She's very involved in local politics, both as an activist and a tireless supporter of Chicano poets and artists in the Bay Area. Oh, and she's clairvoyant.

A college student at the conclusion of her first recorded case, Eulogy for a Brown Angel (1992), by the conclusion of 1999's Black Widow, she's become P.I. She works with her partner, both professional and romantic, Justin Escobar. They both love to cook with a Mexican flavor and he loves jazz.

NOVEL

• Eulogy for a Brown Angel (1992)
• Cactus Blood (1995)
• Black Widow' (1999)

Respectfully submitted by Susan Sotelo, from the University of Arizona, who's doing research on the Chicano detective novel.

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