"Dear Mr. Prosecutor It is one of the pioneering texts of the detective genre and one of the most original. The novel by Mauricio Serrahima (Barcelona, 1902-1979) was published in February 1955, a few months afterEasy blood is shed (1954) by Manuel de Pedrolo, considered the first detective novel in Catalan," explains Àlex Martín, director of the Crims.cat imprint of the Clandestina publishing house. "We have decided to reissue it seventy years later because we want to make known, with a new sub-imprint, Catalan classics of the detective genre that have been unjustly forgotten. year. Among them, Maria Aurèlia Capmany and Jaume Fuster. Maurici Serrahima was a lawyer by family tradition, but above all, and by vocation, a writer, literary critic and republican. From the past when it was presentWritten in six volumes, they cover thirty-four years (1940-1974) and are essential for understanding the everyday history of post-war Barcelona, especially with regard to intellectual, political, and Catalanist circles. Dear Mr. Prosecutor, which Serrahima wrote Written in just 25 days, taking advantage of his wife's trip to Paris, it is the author's only crime novel, although he made some attempts to write another. "From the very beginning, I titled it that way because it's the first words of the text; that is, the heading of a letter. I mustn't deny that the idea of writing it that way comes from having read Letter to my player, by Georges Simenon—magnificent. I want to write it quickly and like manna,” wrote the author. “Serrahima subverts the codes. In the novel, there are no detectives or police officers; rather, it’s a letter from a man convicted of murder who writes to the prosecutor to explain how he ended up in prison,” explains Martín.