by Patrick Quentin · ALIANZA: SELECCIONES DEL SEPTIMO CIRCULO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420640457
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«Enigma para locos» is the crime novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Alianza Emecé in paperback (167 pages, in Spanish).
In an exclusive mental sanatorium, Iris Pattison and Peter Duluth meet while patients hear voices announcing misfortunes and written messages appear that are hard to justify. When a sadistically murdered corpse appears, the intrigue gives way to an escalation of terror that has barely begun.
First installment of the Peter Duluth mystery series, originally published in 1936 as «A Puzzle for Fools». Selecciones del Séptimo Círculo collection.
For lovers of classic golden age crime fiction; recommended for ages 12 and up.
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.
