by David Liss · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420442525
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«Una conspiración de papel» is the historical mystery novel by David Liss, published by Alfaguara in hardback (564 pages, in Spanish).
In eighteenth-century London, Benjamin Weaver, a Jew who pursues thieves and debtors, investigates the death of his father, a stock-market speculator. His inquiries bring him closer to his Jewish roots and to a network of financiers who manipulate the market. An intrigue combining history, financial crimes and mystery.
First instalment of the Benjamin Weaver series. Translated by Eva Cruz; the original, A Conspiracy of Paper, was published in 2000. It won the Barry, Macavity and Edgar awards for best first novel.
For readers of historical and mystery fiction interested in eighteenth-century England and the history of finance.
David Liss is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in South Florida. Liss received his BA degree from Syracuse University, an MA from Georgia State University and his M. Phil from Columbia University. He left his post-graduate studies of 18th Century British literature and unfinished dissertation to write full-time. "If things had not worked out with fiction, I probably would have kept to my graduate school career track and sought a job as a literature professor," he said. A full-time writer since 2010, Liss lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and children.
