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.
