num_pages: 160
description: 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.
language: English
title: Who Killed Palomino Molero?
titlecomplete: Who Killed Palomino Molero?
genres: Spanish Literature, Detective, Nobel Prize, Novels, Crime, Literature, Latin American, Mystery, Fiction, Latin American Literature
ratings_count: 6532
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Ars Translationis
publisher: Noonday Press