It is my kind of murder mystery, with cryptic warning notes using logic symbols, and some background on Pythagoras and his secret society which he started called the Pythagorean Brotherhood, devoted to the study of mathematics. If you don’t read Spanish, it is available in an English translation, and in fact, the book was made into a movie and released in 2008, starring John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Leonor Watling and Julie Cox. And by “because I can’, I mean “because I can using my handy dandy bilingual dictionary and the Spanish dictionary which I downloaded to my Kindle”. I, being the incredibly fabulous person that I am, read it in Spanish, because I can, and because I came across a free digital copy in Spanish. And so it is, but Gentle Readers, it is Logic Lite so you don’t have to panic and get scared off from reading it. 'Guillermo Martínez is a master of suspense.' Matías Néspolo, El Mundo.Guillermo M artínez is an Argentine writer with a PhD in mathematical logic, so you can imagine that this mystery, set in London, will be just chock full of logic and math and cool stuff like that. “Guillermo Martínez has written a brilliant mistery novel.” J. A fascinating story that’s destined to become a classic.” Rosa Montero “With The Alice Murders, Guillermo Martinez reinvents the police thriller, giving it formidable intellectual depth and literary grandeur. In this case, the honourable, eccentric members of the Lewis Carroll Society are the victims as well as the prime suspects.Ī fascinating book that takes the detective novel into the literary realm, in the tradition of Borges and Umberto Eco. Just as they did in The Oxford Murders, the partnership formed by Arthur Seldom, distinguished professor of logic, and a young mathematics student from Argentina will try to solve a series of macabre murders inspired by the fantasy book Alice in Wonderland. However, as she prepares to publish her extraordinary discovery, which offers a new perspective on a delicate, controversial chapter in Carroll’s life, the girl is savagely run down by a car that flees the scene.

What secret from Lewis Carroll’s life is unleashing a series of horrible murders?Ī young Oxford research fellow working with the Lewis Carroll Society finds an unpublished page in the diaries of the author of Alice in Wonderland, mysteriously torn out and lost since 1863.

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