by José Carlos Somoza · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467056365
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«Estudio en negro» is the mystery novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Planeta in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
At the end of the 19th century, Anne McCarey, a nurse with a difficult past, arrives at Clarendon House, an exclusive mental clinic in Portsmouth. There she meets the enigmatic Mr X, a patient able to divine others' secrets. When inexplicable murders occur nearby, Anne, Dr Conan Doyle and Mr X take on Scotland Yard to solve them.
Originally written in Spanish, it belongs to the Espasa Narrativa collection; its first edition was published in October 2019.
For fans of crime fiction and the Sherlock Holmes universe, with a Victorian atmosphere and a dark tone.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
