Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 4:56:31 GMT
People who love crime or crime books face gruesome crimes or ruthless murderers whose actions seem incredible to them. However, it is possible that some of the cases of investigations or judicial processes are actually the recreation of a real event.
Below, we give some examples of these works in which reality is the basis of the story.
We begin this review with The Nail , a story written by the Spanish, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (Guadix, 1833-Madrid, 1891). There are those who maintain that this story marked the beginning of the detective novel in Fax Lists Spain, even though it cannot be said that it is a detective novel in itself. This work, which, by the way, has the subtitle Cause celebre , is based on a real case that had a lot of impact in nineteenth-century Spain.
The book has as protagonists Felipe, narrator of the story, and his friend Judge Joaquín Zarzo. The judge is sad because he was going to marry a beautiful woman named Blanca, but a few days before her wedding she disappears. For his part, Felipe talks to his friend about Mercedes, a beautiful young woman whom he has met on a stagecoach trip and with whom he falls in love.
One day, both friends are walking through the cemetery and find a skull that catches their attention because it has a nail embedded in it. They immediately suspect that it may be a murder and an investigation begins in which the main suspect is Gabriela Zahara, the deceased's wife, and that she is declared a fugitive because she does not appear before the judge.
Finally, Felipe meets Mercedes again and Judge Zarzo meets the woman he was going to marry, but one day the judge is notified by the Civil Guard that the fugitive Gabriela Zahara has been arrested. When they go to see her in her dungeon, the two friends discover that the prisoner is the same person who posed as Blanca and Mercedes.
Gabriela Zahara is tried and in the process she confesses that she killed her husband and is sentenced to death. We don't tell the rest of the story so as not to spoil the ending for those who haven't read it. It should be noted that Alarcón sometimes gives his book the form of an investigation story, with chapters in which he describes in detail the trial, the court, the statements or the first proceedings.
Below, we give some examples of these works in which reality is the basis of the story.
We begin this review with The Nail , a story written by the Spanish, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (Guadix, 1833-Madrid, 1891). There are those who maintain that this story marked the beginning of the detective novel in Fax Lists Spain, even though it cannot be said that it is a detective novel in itself. This work, which, by the way, has the subtitle Cause celebre , is based on a real case that had a lot of impact in nineteenth-century Spain.
The book has as protagonists Felipe, narrator of the story, and his friend Judge Joaquín Zarzo. The judge is sad because he was going to marry a beautiful woman named Blanca, but a few days before her wedding she disappears. For his part, Felipe talks to his friend about Mercedes, a beautiful young woman whom he has met on a stagecoach trip and with whom he falls in love.
One day, both friends are walking through the cemetery and find a skull that catches their attention because it has a nail embedded in it. They immediately suspect that it may be a murder and an investigation begins in which the main suspect is Gabriela Zahara, the deceased's wife, and that she is declared a fugitive because she does not appear before the judge.
Finally, Felipe meets Mercedes again and Judge Zarzo meets the woman he was going to marry, but one day the judge is notified by the Civil Guard that the fugitive Gabriela Zahara has been arrested. When they go to see her in her dungeon, the two friends discover that the prisoner is the same person who posed as Blanca and Mercedes.
Gabriela Zahara is tried and in the process she confesses that she killed her husband and is sentenced to death. We don't tell the rest of the story so as not to spoil the ending for those who haven't read it. It should be noted that Alarcón sometimes gives his book the form of an investigation story, with chapters in which he describes in detail the trial, the court, the statements or the first proceedings.