by Patrick Quentin · Destinosuspense, 1986, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423315185
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«Enigma para diablos» is the suspense novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Destinosuspense in paperback (284 pages, in Spanish).
Peter Duluth wakes up in a clinic with amnesia and with one arm and one leg in casts. Three women present themselves as his mother, his sister, and his wife, and all insist that he is Gordon Friend, heir to a great fortune. From then on, he suspects he is involved in a criminal plot and enters a labyrinth of lies to recover his identity.
The novel was published in 1986 in the DestinoSuspense collection, number 16.
Ideal for readers of classic suspense and plots of mistaken identity and amnesia.
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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.
