Author: PEREZ-REVERTE, ARTURO
Title: Purity of Blood
Description: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297848631). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A woman has been found dead in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled, in her hand a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten, unsigned, note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. Chief Constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Captain Diego Alatriste. Alatriste must rescue the daughter of his poet friend's acquaintance from a convent where two priests are seducing the young women in their charge, but these priests enjoy the protection of the Inquisition who call into question the daughter's purity of blood. A dangerous mission which will bring the Captain once more face to face with his mortal enemy, Gualterio Malatesta. L. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Spanish Authors, Chief Constable Martin Saldana, Captain Diego Alatriste, Spanish Inquisition, Gualterio Malatesta 0297848631


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