by Thomas H. Cook · Umbriel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495618030
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«El misterio de la laguna negra» is the mystery and suspense novel by Thomas H. Cook, published by Umbriel in paperback (354 pages, in Spanish).
It begins when an art teacher arrives at Chatham School and moves into a house by Black Lagoon. Her presence sets off a chain of events that disrupts the town's life. Years later, a single living person holds the answer to the question that destroyed a way of life: what happened at Black Lagoon.
The novel won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It was originally published as The Chatham School Affair (1996) and is part of the Umbriel crime fiction collection.
For adult readers of mystery and suspense; also for reading clubs.
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841. Following the success of this excursion, Cook, by now settled with his family in Leicester, began to organise tours further afield in the British Isles and, eventually, to the United States, Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1872, he went into business with his son as Thomas Cook & Son, with a head office in London. Following his retirement in 1878, he returned to Leicester and took an interest in the Baptist church and charitable work until his death. Cook is credited with having, through his all-inclusive tours, made travel and tourism accessible to a wider public.
