122 pages, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. The book is not quite square, but not horribly so; the jacket is lightly bumped at the head; there's an ownership signature on the front end paper, minor dust staining on the head and very minor foxing on the fore-edge, else the body of the book is clean and solid. First British edition, second impression. "Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the man, Santiago Nasar. As the murder is planned, no one in the town tries to stop the crime, which results in an entire society put on trial for the murder."