by Patrick Quentin · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420640204
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«Enigma para actores» is the crime novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (221 pages, in Spanish).
Peter Duluth prepares his return to the Broadway stage when rehearsals for the new play fill with incidents: a broken mirror, sabotage, a ghostly figure, and the death of two cast members. With the company doctor, and with the entire cast under suspicion, Duluth tries to uncover what lies behind these mysteries.
Second installment in the series featuring Peter Duluth, originally published as «Puzzle for Players» in 1938. Spanish edition from the Selecciones del Séptimo Círculo collection.
For readers of classic crime and noir fiction, especially those who enjoy theatrical mysteries and detective series like Peter Duluth's.
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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott Kelley and Mary Louise White Aswell wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1949, the book Puzzle for Pilgrims won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France.
