Seis problemas para Don Isidro Parodi (con Jorge Luis Borges)
Novel , 1998
Alianza
Pages: 184
Lovers of detective fiction, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares found a way to express both the concerns and pleasures born of their shared passion through a series of singular stories centered around an equally singular "detective" or investigator: Isidro Parodi, "the prisoner of cell 273" in the National Penitentiary, who solves the cases brought to him without ever leaving his cell.
Published in 1942 under the shared pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi consists of six stories that, while entirely independent, gradually reveal to the reader a cast of characters who, subjected to a corrosive sense of humor that lends them traits and airs reminiscent of grand guignol, serve as the driving force behind plots deeply rooted in the finest tradition of mystery fiction.