Rick Skwiot - Sleeping with Pancho Villa

When the gringo Jake Hart meets the seductive Marta Martinez in a dark cantina, she tells him of discovering her fiances body decomposing in his own bath. While some in the Mexican pueblito believe it was she who did him in, suspicion soon falls on Jake - and even on his mad artist friend, Jordan, and a host of others who might have wanted to see the handsome sculptor dead. But few - not even Marta - mourn his passing nor ultimately care who murdered him. With this indifferently received homicide as a backdrop, Skwiot brings his fictional Mexican pueblito and all of its colorful inhabitants to life. Along with Jake, Marta, and Jordan, this cast includes local Revolutionary Party leader Don Pablo Martinez, who desperately needs his dentures repaired for politics to continue as usual; the ghost-rousing curandera Amelia; the gigolo Marcos, who preys on American tourists; and the philandering chief of police Munoz, who impregnates a bar maid and is turned out by his wife to sleep in his office under a portrait of Pancho Villa.