by Eça de Queirós, Ramalho Ortigão · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 5601072555112
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«El misterio de la carretera de Sintra» is the detective novel by Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão, published by Europa-América in paperback.
Considered the first Portuguese detective novel, this work by Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão combines mystery, crime, adultery and social criticism in a succession of serial-style twists that keep the tension until the end. The cover presents the work as reading linked to its film adaptation.
Text in Portuguese, published in 1992 in the Grandes Obras de Livros de Bolso Europa-América collection.
For readers interested in the origins of the detective genre in Portugal and in the work of Eça de Queirós.
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.
