by Victoria Holt · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447320608
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«El ópalo negro» is the mystery and romance novel by Victoria Holt, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardback (381 pages, in Spanish).
Carmel grows up without knowing her parents, under the care of Doctor Marline and his wife. In adolescence she is drawn to Lucian, heir to a neighbouring aristocratic family. The unexpected death by poisoning of Mrs Marline takes her to Australia, where she discovers her origins and a new future.
This corresponds to the 2001 RBA Coleccionables edition, translated by Diana Falcón from the original 'The Black Opal'.
For those seeking romantic suspense with historical setting and a gothic tone.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
