by Patrick Quentin · Alianza Editorial, S.A. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788420640402
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«Enigma para marionetas» is the crime novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (163 pages, in Spanish).
Peter Duluth and his wife, Iris, arrive in San Francisco for a weekend, and a stranger's gesture of giving up her room drags them into an investigation into a series of murders. Plagued by suspicion, Peter delves into the secrets of friends linked to the circus world while trying to prove his innocence.
This novel is the third instalment in the Peter Duluth Mystery series and was originally published in 1944 as «Puzzle for Puppets».
For readers fond of classic mystery; the reading range indicated in the edition is from 12 years old.
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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.
