An Englishman in Madrid

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Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623657199
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Book Synopsis An Englishman in Madrid by : Eduardo Mendoza

Download or read book An Englishman in Madrid written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duque's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duque will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy. As Whitelands--ever the fool for a pretty face--vies with Primo de Rivera for Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize.

A Load of Bull

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781405046206
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (462 download)

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Book Synopsis A Load of Bull by : Tim Parfitt

Download or read book A Load of Bull written by Tim Parfitt and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Load Of Bull is the true story of an Englishman finding his way in one of the most perplexing, anarchic and exuberant cities on earth: Madrid. In the late 80's Tim Parfitt blagged his way into a job at Condé Nast in London and, from there, into a six week stint in Madrid to help launch Spanish Vogue. Six weeks turned into nine years, and helping out turned into running the company. Tim Parfitt never saw a Costa and he certainly never bought an olive grove. Instead, he discovered a booming city in hedonistic reaction to years of facism, where sleep was something you only did at work. Tim Parfitt's rise from unwanted guest to paparazzi pursued mover in Spain's glamorous social scene is a hilarious comedy of errors. 'Hugely entertaining memoir ... frequently laugh-out-loud funny' Daily Express 'A love letter to Madrid ... brilliantly captures a truly eccentric and hedonistic place' Daily Mirror 'Parfitt's light touch and neat line in self-deprecating humour perfectly suits this entertaining urban spin on the old tale of Brits having fun under the Spanish sun' Sunday Times 'Vivid yet affectionate ... fascinating, escapist stuff' OK! Magazine 'Will do for Madrid what 'Driving over Lemons' has done for Andalucia.' Spain Magazine

Frontline Madrid

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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1909930512
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Frontline Madrid by : David Mathieson

Download or read book Frontline Madrid written by David Mathieson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned into a bloody civil war. Hundreds of thousands died in a bitter conflict which tore the country apart and rapidly turned into the prelude for an even greater conflict yet to come--the Second World War. The siege of Madrid was the key battle of the war. The world watched and waited for the city to surrender as General Franco's Nationalist army, backed by Hitler and Mussolini, closed in on the Spanish capital. But Madrid did not fall. Madrileños fought tooth and nail to defend their city. Helped by volunteers from fifty other countries--the International Brigades--they held out against all the odds until the end of the conflict in 1939. Despite its central role in twentieth-century history, the siege of Madrid is an episode largely hidden from today's visitor. There is no guide to the war sites and few clues for the inquisitive traveller who wants to know more. Frontline Madrid fills that gap. This unique guide book explains what life was like in the city under siege and what happened in the battlefield dramas. The simple to follow maps and diagrams make it easy to visit the frontline sites. The vividly written descriptions bring events and people compellingly to life. The role of prominent individuals, British and American--Orwell, Hemingway, John Cornford is explored. Off the beaten track, from the University district in the city centre to the mountains of Guadarrama less than an hour away, the remains of the war in Madrid can still be found--gun emplacements, bunkers, trenches and occasional debris. Frontline Madrid retraces the footsteps of those who lived through the conflict to take the reader on a tour in time. The usual tourist traps are left far behind to enter the gripping world of a war which shaped modern European history.

In the Night of Time

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547548052
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Night of Time by : Antonio Muñoz Molina

Download or read book In the Night of Time written by Antonio Muñoz Molina and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A “hypnotic” novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man’s quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books). October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, Ignacio reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his transformation from a bricklayer’s son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever altered his life. Winner of the 2012 Prix Méditerranée Étranger and hailed as a masterpiece, In the Night of Time is a sweeping, grand novel and an indelible portrait of a shattered society, written by one of Spain’s most important contemporary novelists. “Labyrinthine and spellbinding . . . One of the most eloquent monuments to the Spanish Civil War ever to be raised in fiction.” —The Washington Post, “The Top 50 Fiction Books for 2014” “An astonishingly vivid narrative that unfolds with hypnotic intensity by means of the constant interweaving of time and memory . . . Tolstoyan in its scale, emotional intensity and intellectual honesty.” —The Economist “Epic . . . Intoxicating prose.” —Entertainment Weekly “A War and Peace for the Spanish Civil War.” —Publishers Weekly

The Buenos Aires Quintet

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Publisher : Melville International Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781612190341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Buenos Aires Quintet by : Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Download or read book The Buenos Aires Quintet written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and published by Melville International Crime. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepe Carvalho travels from Barcelona to Buenos Aires to search for his cousin who disappeared in the Argentine army's Dirty War, but soon finds that he is risking his own life by delving into the traumas of Argentina's history.

Fear and Loathing in La Liga

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496635
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Fear and Loathing in La Liga by : Sid Lowe

Download or read book Fear and Loathing in La Liga written by Sid Lowe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A history of modern Spain told through one of world football's most intense rivalries’ Independent ‘Sports Book of the Year’ Sunday Times It’s Messi vs Ronaldo, it’s Catalonia vs Castilla. It’s the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs Franco’s fascists. It’s majestic goals and mesmerising skills, red cards and bench brawls. It’s the best two teams on the planet going face to face and toe to toe. It’s more than a game. It’s a war. It’s Barcelona vs Real Madrid. Only, it’s not that simple. From the wounds left by the civil war to the teams’ recent global domination, historian and expert on Spanish football, Sid Lowe lifts the lid on sport’s greatest rivalry. Lowe has spoken to the biggest names and the forgotten heroes who defined their clubs. Men like Alfredo Di Stéfano and Johan Cruyff as well as the only survivor of the most politically charged game in history, the Barcelona striker who knocked Madrid out of the European Cup for the first time ever, and the president who celebrated his club’s defining moment by taking a midnight dip in the Thames. By exploring the history, politics, culture, economics and language, while never forgetting the drama on the pitch, Lowe demonstrates the symbiotic nature of the relationship between these two football giants. In doing so he reveals the human story behind this explosive rivalry.

Different Class

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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783523786
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis Different Class by : Dermot Kavanagh

Download or read book Different Class written by Dermot Kavanagh and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards When Laurie Cunningham played for England in an under-21s match against Scotland in 1977, he became the first black footballer to represent England professionally. Two years later, he would become the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid. In a time when racist chants flew from the stands, Cunningham's success challenged how black players were perceived, paving the way for future generations. But Cunningham was more than an exceptional footballer who could play like a dream. He was a dandy with a love of funk music and bespoke suits, as easily graceful on the dance floor as he was on the pitch. Different Class is a portrait of an important but unsung figure who brought glamour to the game at a particularly dark point in its history. Many know Laurie Cunningham’s name but not his story; now they will know both.

City of Wonders

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Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781529410082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis City of Wonders by : Eduardo Mendoza

Download or read book City of Wonders written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila "Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly contemporary in spirit" Jonathan Franzen Stung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure, Onofre Bouvila leaves a life of rural poverty to seek his fortune in Barcelona. The year is 1888, and the Catalan capital is about to emerge from provincial obscurity to take its place amongst the great cities of the world, thanks to the upcoming Universal Exhibition. Thanks to a tip-off from his landlord's daughter, Onofre gets his big break distributing anarchist leaflets to workers preparing for the World Fair. From these humble beginnings, he branches out as a hair-tonic salesman, a burglar, a filmmaker, an arms smuggler and a political dealmaker, in a multifaceted career that brings him wealth and influence beyond his wildest dreams. But, just as Barcelona's rise makes it a haven for gangsters, crooks and spivs, vice begins to fester in Onofre's heart. And the climax to his remarkable story will come just as a second World Fair in 1929 marks the city's apotheosis. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor

Errant in Iberia

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781520893327
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis Errant in Iberia by : Ben Curtis

Download or read book Errant in Iberia written by Ben Curtis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-changing move to Spain...This is the inspirational story of moving to a new country with nothing, then really living your dreams.Turning up in Madrid without a word of Spanish, Ben soon finds a job, beautiful language exchanges, amazing journeys to the depths of Spain, and wild fiestas. Then he meets Marina, buys a scarily run-down flat in Madrid's wild Lavapies neighbourhood, and really takes the cultural plunge.Incomprehensible meals with endless Spanish in-laws, residents' meetings where not only his flat but his whole livelihood, and sanity, are on the line... Not to mention Medallion Manolo, the hunter-builder from hell...Errant in Iberia is a complete picture of the troubles and delights of a new life abroad, of Spain as it enters the 21st Century, and of Spain's most intriguing travel destinations.

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923925
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by : Laurie Lee

Download or read book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far." Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change.

Papa Spy

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719651
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Papa Spy by : Jimmy Burns

Download or read book Papa Spy written by Jimmy Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s Tom Burns was a rising star of British publishing, whose friends and authors included G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, the artist Eric Gill and the poet David Jones. And among his glittering social circle he had set his heart on the beautiful Ann Bowes-Lyon, cousin of the Queen. When war was declared in 1939, Burns joined the Ministry of Information, effectively the propaganda wing of the secret services. Sent to Madrid as press attaché at the British Embassy, where the Ambassador was the formidable and very Proetstant Sir Samuel Hoare, Burns used his faith and his deep love of Spain in the propaganda war against the Nazis, who at the time had nearly unrestricted access to the Spanish media. Burns' brief was to do all in his power to keep Franco neutral and so protect Gibraltar and access to the western Mediterranean. The strategy was simple, but the tactics were more complicated, especially when Burns found he had begun to make enemies at home, not least among them Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt, head of the MI6's Iberian section. By 1941 he felt far from the real fighting, Ann had pledged herself to another man, and Burns was spending as much time protecting his back as fighting the Nazis. How he overcame these odds, was involved in the Man Who Never Was decoy plot, arranged Leslie Howard's fatal propaganda trip to Portugal and Spain, and finally found true love while loyally serving his country is the story told in this extraordinary book by his son.

Your Face Tomorrow

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217279
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Face Tomorrow by : Javier Marías

Download or read book Your Face Tomorrow written by Javier Marías and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)

The Face of Spain

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Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Face of Spain by : Gerald Brenan

Download or read book The Face of Spain written by Gerald Brenan and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nautical Chart

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547607431
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nautical Chart by : Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Download or read book The Nautical Chart written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and published by HMH. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless Spanish crew embarks on a search for a lost ship, swallowed by the Indian Ocean centuries ago, in a novel by “a master of the literary thriller” (Booklist, starred review). Manuel Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets Tánger Soto, a captivating beauty who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid. A woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a famed Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, she now hopes to find it and unearth its mysteries, rumored to be buried the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain. Quickly drawn into the search, Coy accompanies Tánger Soto, and a wise old man of the sea whose sailboat will carry the crew into the middle of nowhere in search of a fortune. But more than treasure is rising to the surface—secrets are, too. And from these depths will also come danger, and an adventure no one is prepared for. From the acclaimed author of The Queen of the South, The Nautical Chart is “a swashbuckling tale of mystery” (The Washington Post Book World).

Mine Were of Trouble

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ISBN 13 : 9781777493882
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (938 download)

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Book Synopsis Mine Were of Trouble by : Peter Kemp

Download or read book Mine Were of Trouble written by Peter Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española). Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup against a democratically elected, Soviet-backed, government. The country is thrown into chaos as centuries-old tensions return to the forefront. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards choose sides and engage in the most devastating combat since the First World War. For loyalists to the Republic, the fight is seen as one for equality and their idea of progress. For the rebels, the struggle is a preemptive strike by tradition against an attempted communist takeover. Thousands of foreigners, too, join the struggle. Most fight with the Soviet-sponsored International Brigades or other militias aligned with the loyalist "Republicans". Only a few side with the rebel "Nationalists". One of these rare volunteers for the Nationalists was Peter Kemp, a young British law student. Kemp, despite having little training or command of the Spanish language, was moved by the Nationalist struggle against international Communism. Using forged documents, he sneaked into Spain and joined a traditionalist militia, the Requetés, with which he saw intense fighting. Later, he volunteered to join the legendary and ruthless Spanish Foreign Legion, where he distinguished himself with heroism. Because of this bravery, he was one of the few foreign volunteers granted a private audience with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Kemp published his story... one of the only English accounts of the war from the Nationalist perspective, after a prestigious military career with the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.

Homage to Catalonia

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Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6257120861
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)

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Book Synopsis Homage to Catalonia by : George Orwell

Download or read book Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."

The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt

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Publisher : Telegram Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt by : Eduardo Mendoza

Download or read book The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Released from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator, Gonewiththewind, delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school." "Helped only by his ageing prostitute sister and the voluptuous nymphomaniac, Mercedes, the narrator's investigations take him deeper into a mystery involving murdered sailors, suicidal daughters, a web of organised crime and a secret, underground crypt." "Both gripping and surprising. The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt is a hilarious detective story."--BOOK JACKET.