Comics & Graphic Novels Crime & Mystery
Work for a Million (Graphic Novel)
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2021
- Category
- Crime & Mystery, Adaptations, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780771098338
- Publish Date
- Aug 2021
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
Tightly plotted and razor sharp, Work for a Million is hard-boiled detective noir stunningly rendered against a 1970s urban backdrop.
When Helen Keremos, Private Detective, is hired by a beautiful recording artist who has just won a million dollar lottery prize, her plan for a quiet life on the West Coast is quickly diverted. Helen is fiercely loyal, an independent woman whose magnetic personality and storied career make her the city's premier private eye, suspicious of all stereotypes and not afraid to bend the rules. Rising star Sonia Deerfield has been receiving blackmail threats from an anonymous caller, and though she is surrounded by her keenly invested business team of "friends," Helen wonders how trustworthy they really are. As the stakes get higher and attempts are made on their lives, the two women are drawn closer together through the twists and turns of the blackmailer's dangerous pursuit--and their chemistry is no mystery.
In 1978 Eve Zaremba introduced detective Helen Keremos to readers in a pulp fiction series. The 1987 instalment of the series, Work for a Million, featured the first openly lesbian detective in genre fiction. The novel was adapted into a graphic novel in 2019 by television and comic book writer Amanda Deibert, and will be published more than forty years after readers fell in love with Helen Keremos and Eve Zaremba.
Vivid historical research into Toronto of the late-1970s and a dazzling cast of familiars and foes are brought to life on the page by Canadian artist Selena Goulding in a mixture of full colour and black and white illustrations.
About the authors
EVE ZAREMBA is a writer, artist, and feminist activist. Born in Poland, she emigrated to Canada in 1952 and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1963. After a career in advertising, she joined the founding collective of Broadside feminist newspaper. Eve is the author of the Helen Keremos mystery series and The Privilege of Sex: a century of Canadian women. She lives in Toronto with her spouse, Ottie Lockey. Visit her website at www.evezaremba.com
Selena Goulding is a Canadian illustrator and comic book artist from Vancouver Island currently living in Toronto. A graduate from the Sequential Arts Program at Toronto's Max the Mutt Animation School, she is best known for her work on young adult indie comics such as Cobble Hill, publishing with 215 Ink. This is her first full-length graphic novel, and she is currently working on a contribution for The Secret Loves of Geek Girls Anthology.
