Quique Hache

Created by Sergio Gómez

A series of Spanish language YA novels following the adventures (and misadventures) of fun-loving fifteen-year-old Chilean  QUIQUE HACHE, who has a knack for solving crimes.

In what I think is the second book in the series, Quique Hache, Detective  (2005), Quique’s just knocked off a correspondence course on becoming a private detective.  Instead of leaving the city for the beach to have fun. fun. fun with his pals, he stays in town in Santiago and tries his luck at being a real live private eye.

There have since been a handful of other novels, and at least a couple of graphic novel adaptations by Gonzalo Martinez, who also did the art for Bixby Grant, Private Eye.

NOVELS

• Quique Hache: El Caballo Fantasma (2001)
• Quique Hache, Detective  (2005)
• Quique Hache detective 1: el Misterio del arquero desaparecido  (2009)
• Quique Hache detective 2: el misterio de Santiago (2015)
• Quique Hache detective: El mall embrujado (2020)

COMICS

• QUIQUE HACHE DETECTIVE
  (2009, Alfaguara)
  100 pages
  Language: Spanish
  Based on the novel by Sergio Gómez
  Adapted by Gonzalo Martínez
• QUIQUE HACHE DETECTIVE: EL MISTERIO DE LOS HEROES DEL AIRE
  (2015, Loqueleo Santillana)
  100 pages
  Language: Spanish
  Based on characters created by Sergio Gómez
  Adapted by Gonzalo Martínez

FURTHER INVESTIGATION

• Kiddie Pulp
  Get ‘em while they’re young…

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.