Six Riddles for Don Isidro Parodi

Don Isidro Parodied Six Riddles Book Description Honorio Bustos Domecq is a fictional writer jointly created by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, who left his mark on Latin American literature; Don Isidro Parodied Six Riddles, which bears his signature, is the first joint product of the extraordinary imaginations of Borges and Bioy. The protagonist of the book, Don Isidro Parodi, is a former barber. He was unjustly sentenced to twenty-one years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and he started working as a detective while serving his sentence. Don Isidro does not work like classic detectives. He listens to the stories in cell number 273, sipping his warm mate. These unique adventures, in which he illuminates the murders that remained in the dark in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, thefts whose perpetrators could not be caught, and mysterious suicides, without even moving, as if solving a riddle, are a tribute and a salute to Borges and Bioy detective literature. (From the Promotional Bulletin)