(A Soirée at the Excelsior). Claudine is one of the well-known cabaret Pigalle
starlets who arrives in the bustling Barcelona of 1915 and gets mixed up in a puzzling murder that has taken place at the Excelsior – the most city’s fashionable night-club. The novel leads us through a city of contrasts, a truthful pleasure Mecca, which is placed over a powder keg, while we notice an assortment of peculiar characters in a thrilling metropolis which remained the capital of Europe for three years.