# El clavo

By Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.

"El clavo" by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón is a detective story published in 1853. Considered the first precedent of the detective genre in Spain, it follows a judge who investigates a mysterious skull pierced with a nail found in a cemetery. As he unravels the murder case, his personal life becomes entangled with the investigation when the prime suspect turns out to be someone he knows intimately. Based on a real case that circulated in nineteenth-century Spanish newspapers, this short novel blends romance with criminal mystery. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: Spanish
- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Spanish fiction -- 19th century

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## Audiobooks of it

- [clavo](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/19157) by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (1 h 29 min, Spanish)

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