Alicia's Crimes

Oxford, 1994. The Lewis Carroll Brotherhood decides to publish the private diaries of the author of Alice in Wonderland. Kristen Hill, a young intern, travels to gather the original notebooks and discovers the key to a page that was mysteriously torn out. But Kristen fails to bring her discovery to the Brotherhood meeting. A series of crimes is unleashed with the apparent purpose of preventing, again and again, the secret of that page from coming to light. Who wants to kill the messenger? What is the true pattern hidden behind this succession of crimes? Who and why is using the Alice book to kill? To unravel what is happening, the celebrated Professor of Logic Arthur Seldom, also a member of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, and a young Mathematics student join forces to get to the bottom of the intrigue, and will be dangerously dragged by unpredictable crimes, in an investigation that combines intrigue with the literary. With terse and precise prose, Guillermo Martínez, author of The Oxford Murders, has written a fascinating novel that, in the tradition of Borges and Umberto Eco, takes the detective story to literary terrain.

Oxford, 1994. The Lewis Carroll Brotherhood decides to publish the private diaries of the author of Alice in Wonderland. Kristen Hill, a young intern, travels to gather the original notebooks and discovers the key to a page that was mysteriously torn out. But Kristen fails to bring her discovery to the Brotherhood meeting. A series of crimes is unleashed with the apparent purpose of preventing, again and again, the secret of that page from coming to light. Who wants to kill the messenger? What is the true pattern hidden behind this succession of crimes? Who and why is using the Alice book to kill? To unravel what is happening, the celebrated Professor of Logic Arthur Seldom, also a member of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, and a young Mathematics student join forces to get to the bottom of the intrigue, and will be dangerously dragged by unpredictable crimes, in an investigation that combines intrigue with the literary. With terse and precise prose, Guillermo Martínez, author of The Oxford Murders, has written a fascinating novel that, in the tradition of Borges and Umberto Eco, takes the detective story to literary terrain.