by Patrick Quentin · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408067788
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«Enigma para actores» is the mystery novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Booket in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Peter Duluth sets out to premiere a play on Broadway, but the project goes awry when two actors turn up dead. With no solid alibis, Duluth and the company's doctor take up an investigation on their own in a case that works as a satire of the artistic world.
Second installment in the series starring Peter Duluth. Original title: «Puzzle for Players». Patrick Quentin is the pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Webb.
For fans of crime fiction and mysteries set in the world of theater.
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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott Kelley and Mary Louise White Aswell wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1949, the book Puzzle for Pilgrims won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France.
