The Six Mysteries of Isidro Parodi (the Complete Works of Borges)

About This Novel

In the collection of detective novels by Borges, the master of Latin American literature, the first imprisoned detective in history appears! This book is a detective novel co-written by Argentinian writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares under the pseudonym Honorio Bustos Domec. Borges had a special liking for the genre of detective novels. He tried to break the limitations of detectives' abilities and created "the first imprisoned detective" - ​​Isidro Parodi. Compared with the blind detective Max Carrados, the gentleman detective August Dubin, and the remote puzzle-solving Prince Zaleski, this housebound Parodi is even more impressive. He was wrongly imprisoned and solved six incredible mysteries in Cell 273 of Buenos Aires Prison. The six mysteries told in the novel parody the classic settings in the history of detective novels such as "Murder on the Orient Express" and "The Stolen Letter". They pay tribute to them one by one and add inversions, making the story full of intellectual fun and human tone.

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