by Thomas H. Cook · Plata · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493618049
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«En las redes del pasado» is the mystery and suspense novel by Thomas H. Cook, published by Plata in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
Roy Slater returns to Kingdom County twenty-five years after leaving, upon learning that his father is terminally ill. His reunion with Lonnie and with Lila Cutler, his youthful love, coincides with the discovery of a corpse; the case reopens old grudges and Roy realizes that in Kingdom the debts of the past are not forgotten.
The novel belongs to the Plata negra collection, with translation by Mireia Terés Loriente. It was nominated for the 2005 Edgar Award in the category of best paperback original.
For adult readers of crime and suspense fiction, with a story of return to the past and crimes that are not forgotten.
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841. Following the success of this excursion, Cook, by now settled with his family in Leicester, began to organise tours further afield in the British Isles and, eventually, to the United States, Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1872, he went into business with his son as Thomas Cook & Son, with a head office in London. Following his retirement in 1878, he returned to Leicester and took an interest in the Baptist church and charitable work until his death. Cook is credited with having, through his all-inclusive tours, made travel and tourism accessible to a wider public.
