Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de,  1833-1891 <br/><br/>
El clavo 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_clavo  Release date is 2022-01-25 
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<br/><br/> "El clavo" by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón is a detective story published in 1853. Considered the first precedent of the detective genre in Spain, it follows a judge who investigates a mysterious skull pierced with a nail found in a cemetery. As he unravels the murder case, his personal life becomes entangled with the investigation when the prime suspect turns out to be someone he knows intimately. Based on a real case that circulated in nineteenth-century Spanish newspapers, this short novel blends romance with criminal mystery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Detective and mystery stories Spanish fiction -- 19th century 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ