Research Catalog

Title

The mystery of the enchanted crypt / Eduardo Mendoza ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor.

Author

Mendoza, Eduardo, 1943-

Publication

London ; San Francisco : Telegram, 2008.

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Description

192 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Released from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quickwitted and foul-smelling narrator delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl. He is helped only by his ageing prostitute sister and the voluptuous nymphomaniac, Mercedes.

Uniform Title

Misterio de la cripta embrujada. English

Alternative Title

Misterio de la cripta embrujada.

Subject

• Police > Mental health > Barcelona > Fiction
• Missing children > Barcelona > Fiction
• Prostitutes > Fiction
• Nymphomania > Fiction
• Organized crime > Barcelona > Fiction

Genre/Form

Detective and mystery stories.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A Surprise Visit -- 2. The Inspector's Story -- 3. A Re-encounter, an Encounter and a Journey -- 4. What the Swedish Sailor Did Next -- 5. Not One but Two Great Escapes -- 6. The Merry Gardener -- 7. The Saintly Gardener -- 8. Premarital Tension -- 9. A Trip to the Country -- 10. The Murderous Teacher's Tale -- 11. The Enchanted Crypt -- 12. A Personal Interlude: What I Was Thinking -- 13. An Unexpected and Regrettable Accident -- 14. The Mysterious Dentist -- 15. The Dentist Comes Clean -- 16. The Corridor of a Hundred Doors -- 17. In the Crypt -- 18. The House on the Mountain -- 19. The Mystery of the Crypt. Solved at Last.

ISBN

• 9781846590511 (pbk.)
• 1846590515 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 216936875
• SCSB-11315076

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library