The Spanish Lady

by walsh-maurice

Utterly unlike anything Walsh has done before -- and not a success. Possibly there is a market for it among mystery fans, though even in this field the story bogs down in the slow paced unravelling of a murder. The setting is a village in the Highlands (and Walsh handles the feel of place well). The period is that following the Dunkirk evacuation. And the characters include a General of the old aristocracy, his lovely Spanish wife, the Scottish villagers whose half-Spanish nephew, recuperating from Dunkirk, falls in love with the General's wife, and other inhabitants of the Valley.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1943

Reviews

[Laura]

Free download available at Faded Page.

I made the smooth-reading for Project Gutenberg - Canada. And it will be published by FadedPage.

Opening lines:
DIEGO USTED WAS the only passenger that got off the train at Craik
Station, but, then, as far as he could see, there was no reason in the
world why anyone—-even himself—-should get off at that station in the
portals of an empty mountain wilderness.