The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt

The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt is an unusual and unexpected novel. It is both a witty parody of a detective story and a caricature of life in a large European city. Students mysteriously disappear from a school at a monastery. Realizing their helplessness, the police resort to the help of a very peculiar character - a former criminal, and now a patient in a psychiatric hospital. Perhaps it is this combination of properties that gives his judgments amazing insight, and his actions - amusing unpredictability. But the main thing is that only this extravagant detective is able to solve the mysterious crime ... Novelist and playwright Eduardo Mendoza is deservedly considered one of the greatest Spanish writers of our time. The novel City of Miracles became an international bestseller and was successfully filmed by director Mario Camus. The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt is the first of Mendoza's parodic and satirical works.