title: Death and Money in The Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight
author:  Adrian Shubert 
description: In our modern world, leisuretime activities are extremely common and very plentiful, but this was not always the case. Shubert's well-researched history of bullfights throughout the centuries reveals the Don King^-like promotion of the bullring even during the eighteenth century; the star treatment given to the matadors, earlier versions of today's high-priced athletes; and the selling of other products (concessions) that went along with promoting the bullfight. Shubert explores the history of the sport as we know it today. Star matadors are featured, most notably twentieth-century legend Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, and an entire chapter is devoted to female bullfighters. Spanish history cannot help but be tied up with bullfighting, especially in terms of economic and social aspects of Spanish culture. For those interested in bullfighting, Shubert's work is incredibly thorough, and his prose, though occasionally dry, is glib enough to keep even the most casual observer engrossed. <i>Joe Collins</i>
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  # Hot Blood
  
  
  ### Arthur Wallace
  
  
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  Etext from pulpgen.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Spicy Adventure , April, 1935
  
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  The glamour of old Spain breathes in this swift-moving story of the bull
  ring... and a beautiful senorita finds death lurking beneath the romance of a
  toreador
  
  
  THE thick-shouldered, heavy-set Miura bull, black as the ebony mantillas of
  the Señoritas in the gallery, charged at the mounted picador, head lowered,
  massive body tensed in a frenzy of anger.
  
  The crowd rose as a man, eyes centered on the thundering beast already enraged
  by five thrusts with the sharp, steel-pointed pica. They could see there was
  no way for the picador to turn his mount away from the bull's sharp horns. The
  horse would be gored and if the rider did not fall free, he, too, would be
  trampl