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HELU, Antonio (1900?1972). La Obligacion de Asesinar. Mexic...

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HELU, Antonio (1900?1972). La Obligacion de Asesinar. Mexico City: Albatros, 1946. 8vo. Publisher?s printed wraps. FIRST EDITION. Antonio Helu was a director and screenwriter of Mexican cinema active between 1935?1960 and best known for his fictional detective Maximo Roldan, conceived as a Mexican answer to American characters such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. La Obligacion de Asesinar is a novelization of Helu?s 1937 film, The Obligation to Assassinate.