by Pedro Delgado Cavilla · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408062165
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«El misterio Cervantes» is the historical intrigue novel by Pedro Delgado Cavilla, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (273 pages, in Spanish).
In 1658 Madrid, the Grand Inquisitor is found murdered with a copy of Don Quixote. The killers were after the Speculum Cordis, a forbidden book that Cervantes saved from the fire in Rome. Father Alonso, a Jesuit physician tasked by Philip IV with solving the crime, follows clues to Golden Age works full of encrypted codes.
Published in 2005 in the Planeta Fábula collection. The cover subtitle is «La novela que revela las claves ocultas en el Quijote».
Readers of historical and mystery fiction seeking literary enigmas set in 17th-century Madrid and the Golden Age classics.
