by Eça de Queiroz · Signo Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484472346
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«El misterio de la carretera de Cintra» is the suspense novel by Eça de Queiroz, published by Signo Editores in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
It is considered the first Portuguese crime novel, written with Ramalho Ortigão; it combines the investigation of a mystery with adultery and social criticism; its serialised rhythm keeps the intrigue going until the denouement.
Original title: O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra. Volume 15 of the collection 'Novelas de suspense y terror'; translation by María del Mar Osuna Pérez. The work was originally published in 1870.
For readers of classic and mystery fiction, especially those interested in the origins of the crime genre in the nineteenth century.
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London Observer, Jonathan Keates ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.
