by Victoria Holt · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425315961
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«El orgullo del pavo real» is the romantic mystery novel by Victoria Holt, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in paperback (396 pages, in Spanish).
Jessica Clavering, ruined, inherits half of an opal mine and marries the mine's owner to secure her future. When Jessica arrives in Australia, the inheritance, the legendary Green Flash opal, and the secrets of her husband's family hide a danger that will test her courage.
The original English title is The Pride of the Peacock, a novel published in 1976; the Spanish edition is from 1984.
It is aimed at readers of gothic romance and romantic suspense set in Australia.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
