Who Killed Palomino Molero?

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth.

Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosa’s characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 06/24/1998
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780374525569
Language: English