The Street of the Three Beds

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453264805

<DIV><b>In the shady backstreets of late nineteenth-century Barcelona, where nothing is quite what it seems, a prosperous heir&rsquo;s carefree life is turned upside down when he investigates the mysterious disappearance of his working-class mistress</b></div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Maurici Aldab&ograve; is the scion of a prominent manufacturing family, a member of the wealthy Barcelona bourgeoisie. But Aldab&ograve;&rsquo;s seemingly charmed life is interrupted when his mistress, a seamstress, vanishes without a trace, drawing him into an obsessive search through the city&rsquo;s underworld.</div><DIV>Inspired by a popular urban legend about the white slave trade and the disappearance of a young woman in a lingerie store, the novel explores the connections between Barcelona&rsquo;s criminal underground and its echelons of power. Named after a real street in Barcelona&rsquo;s Gothic Quarter, <i>The Street of the Three Beds</i> reveals the colorful and corrupt hidden life of the city.</div>