The first Spanish detective novel written by the woman who was ahead of all the great ladies of police literature.
Emilia Pardo Bazán was ahead of all the great ladies of the detective novel and was a pioneer in Spain in the cultivation of ‘noir’ or detective literature. Before the publication of ‘La gota de sangre’ in 1911, there was no reference in Spain for a genre that was already triumphing in other countries.
The story ‘La gota de sangre’ is a little gem recovered by Siruela in its Clásicos Policíacos collection. The story fits perfectly in the literary context of the late nineteenth century, in which the noir genre was growing in popularity in the United Kingdom with the investigations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown and the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
