Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The fencing master

A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces their relationship. By the author of The Flanders Panel.

Andrew John Kinney

The book is a fairly interesting mystery, aside from the scenes at cafe's that involve tedious and interminable conversations by the men gathered in said cafe's. What finally caused me to dislike the book was its misogynistic tone, a tone which only becomes clear toward the end of the book.

The fencing master

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