The Vagrant and the Mirror - Couverture souple

Kiernan, Lawlor

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798237489002

Editeur : Goldenback, 2026

Synopsis

Spain's most prolific serial killer left no trace for seven years. Between 1964 and 1971, Manuel Delgado Villegas - known as El Arropiero, after the sweet Andalusian syrup his father peddled along the country roads - killed seven people across three countries: a sleeping cook on a winter beach, a young French student in an Ibizan farmhouse, an elderly landowner by a Castilian river, a Barcelona businessman in his own warehouse, an elderly woman in a drainage culvert, a railway worker in the Bay of Cádiz, and the woman he was living with. He claimed forty-eight.

Born to a dead mother and a road-bound father, raised in the working-class margins of Catalonia without literacy, language, or any form of adequate care, Delgado moved through the policing blind spots of Franco's Spain like a ghost - invisible to a system that had no mechanism for linking his scattered crimes across provincial borders.

When he finally confessed in 1971, he did so not under coercion but under patient, empathic attention - and what poured out was one of the most extraordinary confessions in the history of European criminal investigation.

The Vagrant and the Mirror is the first full-length English-language account of the Arropiero case: a forensic, moral, and historical reckoning with Spain's darkest unsolved story.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lawlor Kiernan grew up between County Clare and Madrid, shaped equally by the west of Ireland's talent for long memory and Spain's complicated relationship with its own recent past. A lifelong reader of forensic history and criminal psychology, Kiernan spent several years researching the Arropiero case in depth, working through Spanish-language archives, criminal procedural documents, and the forensic psychiatric literature that the case generated. Kiernan's particular interest lies at the intersection of institutional failure, social marginalisation, and extreme violence - the question of what the world makes of the people it refuses to see. The Vagrant and the Mirror is the first book under the Lawlor Kiernan name.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Goldenback
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798237489002
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible