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The location is the beautiful and historic city of Granada. The husband-and-wife writing duo, aka P J Brooke, impart their knowledge of this area to the reader almost straight away. The hot and dusty terrain is described in detail, along with some tempting snippets of local history; for example, some of the locals still choose to live in old cave houses. Very primitive living indeed, as you can imagine. And one inhabitant, a gypsy, is found dead. As his cave is so bare and sparse there's not too much evidence for Sub-Inspector Romero to go on. But, he does find something of interest ...
And from here the plot thickens nicely. All manner of family members, neighbours and people in the wider community are questioned. Nothing appears to be forthcoming. The general view is that he probably choked on his own vomit after having one drink too many. He was an ex-con after all, what do you expect? Case firmly closed. Or is it?