Another enjoyable Spanish book for learning the language. Again, with these kinds of books, the story could have been longer and more thoroughly developed. Although the book was fun to read, I must admit that I am not a proponent of the protagonist Eduardo. His character is a bit shady. When his acquaintance Mercedes got lost and went missing in the house he is renting, he went to her house to snatch her dog as a coverup so that no one would be suspicious of her disappearance. And when he later found money in the secret part of the house where Mercedes got trapped, he intended to use it to buy the house, even though he suspected that it was the savings of the landlord's dead uncle. The right thing to do would have been to turn the money over to the landlord. I suppose I don't need to like the protagonist to enjoy the book.