by Stanley Ellin · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423313587
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«La herencia Valentine» is the suspense novel by Stanley Ellin, published by Destino in paperback (334 pages, in Spanish).
Chris Monte, a tennis teacher and former professional player retired after an accident, receives an unusual proposal: to marry Elizabeth for two months in exchange for 50,000 dollars to fulfill a strange will. The action, with a mysterious atmosphere and agile dialogue, moves from Miami to Boston and ends in London.
The novel, translated by Ramón Margalef, was originally published in 1968 as The Valentine Estate; the Spanish edition appeared in 1985 in the Destino Suspense collection.
For readers of suspense and crime fiction, with suggested reading age from 12 years.
Stanley Bernard Ellin was an American mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a brief tenure in the Army, at the insistence of his wife, Ellin began writing full time. While his novels are acclaimed, he is best known for his short stories. In May 1948, his first sale, and one of Ellin's most famous short stories, "The Specialty of the House", appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
