Three decades as a novelist, sales that are estimated at 27 million copies (between fiction and rehearsal) and translated into more than 40 languages: these are the successful figures of Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Cartagena, 1951), the war reporter converted to a writer who conquers readers with their historical and police fictions.
From ‘El Húsar’ (1986) to the recent ‘The island of the sleeping woman’, Arturo Pérez-Reverte-MEMBRO DE LA RAE since 2003- He has managed to use his gift of the word, his ability to document himself and his expertise to make exciting and refined texts in novels such as Fencing teacher (1988), Flanders table (1990), He Club Dumas (1993), Comanche territory (1994), Drum’s skin (1995), Course license (1998), The Queen of the South (2002), TRAFALGAR (2004), Sidi (2019), The Italian (2021)…
Many of these novels have been taken to the cinema and television, and yesterday it was announced that Another of his books will be adapted to series by Netflix: it is ‘the final problem’ (2023), His penultimate novel at the moment, an addictive story in which he wanted to pay tribute to his admired Sherlock Holmes.
‘The final problem’ (Alfaguara) It aims to pay tribute to Basil Rathbone, the actor who gave life to Sherlock Holmes in many films and takes us to June 1960, to a hotel on a Greek island, where nine people remain isolated by a storm. An English tourist appears dead in the beach pavilion, so all guests ask Hopalong Basil, an actor in decline who once embodied a detective, who uses his ‘experience’ to solve the case. A period thriller of only 328 pages loaded with secrets, mystery and unexpected twists.
‘The final problem’: which is known about the Netflix series
Netflix revealed yesterday that it prepares a series that adapts ‘the final problem’. It will have 5 chapters and will star Jose Coronado, María Valverde, Martiño Rivas, Maribel Verdú, Gonzalo de Castro, Cristina Kovani, Jose Condessa the Pepon Nieto.
The series, which is already rolling and will be directed by Félix Viscarret, already has a synopsis: “During the spring of 1959, thirteen people are isolated by a storm in an islet near Mallorca. No one imagines what is about to happen in the small hotel in which they stay: Elisa Mander, a discreet tourist of English origin, appears dead. What at first seems to be a suicide soon begins to give signs of being something much more disturbing: a murder.
Basil, a retired actor who once embodied on the big screen Sherlock Holmes himself, will be converted, almost without pretending, in charge of unraveling what happened. In a place that nobody can leave and to which no one can reach, all guests and employees will become suspects of a crime that at each time that passes is revealed more complex and convoluted than no one could imagine initially. ”
‘The final problem’: casting photos
