by Bruce Alexander · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401471520
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«La matanza de Grub Street» is a crime novel by Bruce Alexander, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (411 pages, in Spanish).
In eighteenth-century London, the blind judge Sir John Fielding and his assistant Jeremy Proctor investigate the brutal murder of publisher Ezequiel Crabb and his family. The clues point to a rural poet found beside a bloodstained axe, while a parallel plot follows an American religious community with antisemitic tendencies.
Original title: «Murder in Grub Street». Translation by Daniel Aguirre Oteiza. Second title in the Judge Sir John Fielding series.
For those who enjoy historical crime fiction and mysteries set in eighteenth-century London.
Alexander Bruce (1854–1911) was a Scottish surgeon, neurologist and editor and publisher of The Review of Neurology and Psychiatry. He was an early advocate of the now largely discredited use of electrotherapy in the treatment of mental health disorders.
