Soho Press - A Dead Man in Barcelona by Michael Pearce

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The fifth exciting crime novel in Michael Pearce’s Dead Man series

January 2009| Fiction/Mystery
$25 Paperback
ISBN:978-1-56947-537-9

“Picking up a new book by Michael Pearce reminds you why people enjoy reading mysteries.”—Denver Post

“The steady pace, atmospheric design, and detailed description re-create a complicated city. A recommended historical series.”—Library Journal

“Sheer fun.”—The Times (UK)

“An unfailingly amusing historical series.”—Booklist

“Pearce again demonstrates his skill at making the past come alive and at seamlessly weaving actual political intrigues into his plot.”—Publishers Weekly

Barcelona, 1912. An Englishman is found dead in prison. He was a prominent businessman in Gibraltar. Gibraltar thinks the case cries out for investigation by someone independent of the Spanish authorities. So Scotland Yard dispatches Seymour of the Special Branch.

Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He trained as a Russian interpreter but later moved to an academic career, first as a lecturer in English and the History of Ideas and then as an administrator. Michael Pearce now lives in South-West London and is best known as the author of the award winning Mamur Zapt books.