Who Killed Palomino Molero?

Who Killed Palomino Molero?
First edition (Spanish)
Author	Mario Vargas Llosa
Original title	¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?
Country	Peru
Language	Spanish
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Seix Barral
Publication date	1986

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

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.

Works by Mario Vargas Llosa

Novels	The Time of the Hero (1963) The Green House (1966) Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) The War of the End of the World (1981) The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986) The Storyteller (1987) In Praise of the Stepmother (1988) Death in the Andes (1993) The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997) The Feast of the Goat (2000) The Way to Paradise (2003) The Bad Girl (2006) The Dream of the Celt (2010)

Short story collection	The Cubs and Other Stories (1959)

Essays	The Basis for Interpretation of Rubén Darío (1958) The Perpetual Orgy (1975) The Temptation of the Impossible (2004)

Essay collections	A Writer's Reality (1991) A Fish in the Water (1993) Making Waves (1997) Letters to a Young Novelist (1997) The Language of Passion (2001)