Who Killed Palomino Molero?

Who Killed Palomino Molero?
First edition (Spanish)
AuthorMario Vargas Llosa
Original title¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?
LanguageSpanish
GenreCrime novel
PublisherSeix Barral
Publication date
1986
Publication placePeru
Followed byDeath in the Andes 

Who Killed Palomino Molero? (Spanish: ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?) is a 1986 novel by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.[1]

The book begins with the discovery of the brutally murdered body of a young recruit, Palomino Molero, from a nearby military base in northern Peru. Vargas Llosa uses the structure of a murder mystery to examine the darker side of human nature, corruption, and class prejudice in Peru of the 1950s.

Death in the Andes also follows the character of policeman Lituma, who first appeared in The Green House.

  1. ^ "WHO KILLED PALOMINO MOLERO? by Mario Vargas Llosa; translated by Alfred MacAdam (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $14.95; 134 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. June 14, 1987.