Melania Cabello

Melania Cabello (February 9, 1887 – April 22, 1943) was an Argentine writer known worldwide for creating the pioneering adventure and crime stories book franchise Najat, which she wrote 32 volumes during 1910 and 1941, when he decided to end the franchise due to his cancer treatment. Najat is a pioneer due to the female protagonism of the collection, whose main characters are all women, being an Arab journalist, a poet of African ancestry, a French scientist, and a Spanish playwright, the work is treated as one of the first strongholds of feminism, although Melania never took a position for or against feminism.

Early years
Melania Cabello was born on February 9, 1887, in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina, the first of two girls, who together with 4 other men, being overall the 4th child of María de las Mercedes and Ernesto Cabello. Her mother and father were an extremely Catholic couple, and gave Melania a religious education, having placed the girl in the seminary since she was 4 years old, and although Cabello had no interest in being a nun, she stayed in the seminary until the end of her studies in 1907, and like it or not, his religious education greatly amplified her religious knowledge.

The girl Melania was notable however for her creative ability and also spelling and writing, she acquired due to a regime that all of the children of María de las Mercedes and Ernesto were forced to read every day at least 4 pages of any book, since they wanted their children to be highly literate. Her first traits as a writer emerged during her studies, as she used to produce sonnets and also stood out for creating scripts for school plays, she also started reading crime story books, which made her also very skilled in creating crime fiction scripts.

After finishing her studies, Melania decided to bet on her career as a writer, having moved to Buenos Aires, where she got a job at the newspaper , writing serials, poems and chronicles. She, however, was not satisfied and decided to look for a publisher to publish a book, but before looking for this publisher, he wrote the book in question, thus emerged Najat and the Hypertheorema, the first book of the collection Najat, written in 1910.

1. Najat and the Hypertheorem
In 1910, Melania published the book that would begin her successful collection, Najat and the Hypertheorem, the book introduced us to Najat Abitbot, an Arab journalist and spy—in editions and translations dating back to the 1970s, Najat is said to work at —working on behalf of the government of the (now the ), a British colony in the Middle East. She lives in a chateau inherited from her father and has the help of Azza Jalili to maintain it, Azza is a woman of African descent who has been an affiliate of Najat's family since she was a child when the spy's father was still alive, as she was an orphan, Azza is educated and literate, writing poems and other types of rhymes, in addition to being a faithful helper to Najat, joining her on the mission that generates the climax of the story.

The book's plot unfolds after the kidnapping of an influential tycoon from Manchester, England, whose only clue to his whereabouts is left with calculations that are typical of Pythagoras's Theorem and Thales' Theorem, which leads Najat to use his math knowledge to arrive at the conclusion of the crime, she is helped by Azza, who becomes a colleague of Najat, to solve the mystery and do the calculations, at the end of the book they come to the conclusion that the whereabouts of the tycoon would simply be the sum of the result of the calculations of the two theorems, and they have to travel out of the country and travel to England, where they end up finding the kidnapped and their kidnappers.

The book was well received by Argentines and was published in Europe and other countries in the Americas throughout the 1920s, where it gained prominence and Najat was referred as Female . The national success of this inspired Melania to write another book following the spy, thus the second book of the collection, Najat at Your Majesty's Service, emerged.

2. Najat at Your Majesty's Service
The second installation of the collection follows in England, after solving the mystery of Najat and the Hypertheorem, the spy prepares to return to the Trucial States, when a message is sent to her sent directly from Buckingham Palace, in which is written by the fictional Prince Robert, who contacted Najat after the references given by the tycoon that she freed, this asked her to discover what is behind numerous cases of assassination attempts on the king and queen consort, the also fictional King Richard VI and Queen Consort Marion, being invited to attend the palace for better information. after being informed by the royal family about all that happened, she begins to link the facts and question whether the criminal faction behind the various attempts and murders of nobles would be the same behind the kidnapping of the tycoon from Najat and the Hypertheorem , and if the criminals responsible for the kidnapping were just a satellite organization to the main organization.

Najat and Azza then leave Manchester and go to London, in order to look for enough clues to prove their theory, or at least, to be able to find some member from which they can extract clues, but something that calls their attention is when the tycoon which they saved is seen entering an alley on the sly...