Who Killed Palomino Molero?

About this book

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThis 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.

About the author

Mario Vargas Llosa has 6 books in the store, published between 1998 and 2027, mostly in Fiction.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780374525569

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

June 24, 1998

Pages

160

Weight

7.2 oz

Subject

Fiction