A history of Spanish detective fiction from Alarcon's "El clavo," published twelve years after Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," up to the present. The presentation of the highly entertaining sleuth characters is based on a detailed examination of the works and, in many cases, personal interviews with the writers.
- ISBN10 0838632785
- ISBN13 9780838632789
- Publish Date 28 February 1988
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 March 2007
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 197
- Language English