El Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de 1833-1891 creator text utu 2022 monographic es 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_clavo Release date is 2022-01-25 Ramón Pajares Box Originally published: Spain: B. Rodríguez Serra, 1900 Detective and mystery stories Spanish fiction -- 19th century PQ Spain: B. Rodríguez Serra, 1900 https://archive.org/details/elclavoalar00alaruoft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67248 https://archive.org/details/elclavoalar00alaruoft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67248 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134543.0 67248