Spanish author Eduardo Mendoza studied law in Barcelona and later completed his training in London, where he specialized in sociology.
After working in the banking sector, Mendoza decided to move to New York, where he was a translator for the UN.
In 1975, while still in the United States, his first novel, La verdad sobre el caso Savolta, was published. It achieved great success among American intellectual circles, receiving the Critics' Prize.
His second novel, El misterio de la cripta embrujada, appeared in 1979, already demonstrating Mendoza's distinctive style, which blends elements from various genres—such as the Gothic novel, science fiction, and crime fiction—along with a distinctive sense of humor, satire, and parody, as he repeated on several subsequent occasions, such as in Sin noticias de Gurb (1991), serialized in El País.
