The Street of the Three Beds

By: Roser Caminals-Heath

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Synopsis: In the shady backstreets of late nineteenth-century Barcelona, where nothing is quite what it seems, a prosperous heir&’s carefree life is turned upside down when he investigates the mysterious disappearance of his working-class mistress Maurici Aldabò is the scion of a prominent manufacturing family, a member of the wealthy Barcelona bourgeoisie. But Aldabò&’s seemingly charmed life is interrupted when his mistress, a seamstress, vanishes without a trace, drawing him into an obsessive search through the city&’s underworld.Inspired by a popular urban legend about the white slave trade and the disappearance of a young woman in a lingerie store, the novel explores the connections between Barcelona&’s criminal underground and its echelons of power. Named after a real street in Barcelona&’s Gothic Quarter, The Street of the Three Beds reveals the colorful and corrupt hidden life of the city.