by Eduardo Mendoza · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432213809
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«El misterio de la cripta embrujada» is the novel by Eduardo Mendoza, published by Seix Barral in paperback (178 pages, in Spanish).
The disappearance of several girls in a religious school in Barcelona sets off an investigation led by a mental asylum patient turned improvised detective. The plot combines crime narrative with a burlesque farce and social satire drawing on the picaresque and the Cervantine model.
Originally published in 1979, it belongs to Seix Barral's Nueva Narrativa Hispánica collection.
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish novelist, playwright, and essayist. His first novel, La Verdad sobre el Caso Savolta, published in 1975, reflected the social changes as Spain transitioned to democracy, and was very successful. His 1986 novel, La Ciudad de los Prodigios, is widely acclaimed, and he is also known for his "mad detective" parody novels, in particular El Laberinto de las Aceitunas.
