Latin Blood: The Best Crime and Detective Stories of South America

by Donald A. Yates

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Hardcover

Published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Daniel Polansky]

A selection of short mysteries from Latin American writers. Really I just picked this up because it was the only thing I could find in the LA library system with a story from H. Bustos Domecq, a joint pseudonym under which Borges and Adolfo Bioy Cesares wrote classic Holmes-style mysteries. Anyway it was fine, I don't really like this style of writing so I'm probably not the best person to render judgment on the quality of these particular iterations.

[Jeff Hobbs]

Read so far:

The case of the travelling corpse, by A. Edwards--
The garden of forking paths, by J.L. Borges--2
Juliet and the magician, by M. Peyrou--
Gambler's tale, by R.J. Walsh--
Early morning murder, by V. Ayala Gauna--
The twelve figures of the world, by H. Bustos Domecq--
Piropos at midnight, by A. Helú--
The puzzle of the broken watch, by M.E. Bermúdez--
Far south, by D.A. Sáenz--
A scrap of tinfoil, by A. Ferrari Amores--2
The case of the "Southern Arrow," by L.A. Isla--
Just lather, that's all, by H. Téllez--
The general makes a lovely corpse, by E. Anderson Imbert--
The dead man was a lively one, by P. Martínez de la Vega--
Shadow of a bird, by R.J. Walsh--
Checkmate in two moves, by W.I. Eisen--
Death and the compass, by J.L. Borges--2