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Sangre entre brumas
Catalog Note *Sangre entre brumas* (Blood in the Mist), by Alar Benet, translated into Spanish by A. Román, is a crime mystery set in fog-shrouded London during December 1952. The narrative opens with a stabbed woman discovered on the street near Piccadilly Circus by Harry Plummer, a man with a criminal record whom police have long suspected. Despite his instinct to flee, Plummer summons help and accompanies the injured woman—identified as Dorothy Toombs, a 29-year-old writer—to psychiatrist Dr. William Sanderson's nearby residence. As Sanderson treats her serious wound (a knife through the lung), Inspector Alexander Dixon arrives to investigate. The story explores the tension between Plummer's shadowed past and his genuine humanitarian impulse, while establishing a mystery around the attack's true motive and Plummer's possible involvement in a larger crime concerning a valuable diamond recently arrived in England.