During a Friday night pub quiz a man is fatally poisoned in a room full of quiz-takers.
No one notices how.
Sun, sand, beautiful women and a puzzling murder: what better combination to seduce the holiday traveller or the Majorca fan to buy and to devour this story? Majorca Murder Mystery will appeal to the millions of island tourists.
The centre of events is a British bar in Illetas and its small but international group of regulars. The narrator serves as quiz master for the bar’s Friday pub quizzes and his life on Majorca has settled into a pleasant routine until the evening Felipe appears.
Felipe is handsome, charming and intelligent. Women easily fall for him, and men resent that. Two women, however, are affected quite differently. Both Evelyn and Pilar were once in a relationship with Felipe. Manuel, Pilar’s boyfriend, becomes jealous. One day, Felipe humiliates Manuel. Only days later, during a Friday pub quiz, Felipe is murdered.
Inspired by Agatha Christie mysteries, the narrator feels the need to solve an intellectual challenge: Who killed Felipe?
Jealousy, love, hate and loyalty are all aspects of the case. When he gets the decisive break, he arranges to present his solution to a packed bar during his Friday pub quiz two weeks after Felipe’s death.