Who Killed Palomino Molero?

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, Alfred J. Mac Adam

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 160

• Publisher
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-52556-9

• EAN
• 9780374525569

• Genres
• fiction, mystery, crime, novels, literature, detective

• Release date
• 1998