Gabriel García Márquez is the greatest writer of the twentieth century, a Nobel Prize laureate, the author of the world-famous novels “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, “Love in the Time of Plague” and “The Autumn of the Patriarch”. Throughout his life, Márquez repeatedly emphasized that in the first he considers himself a journalist and devotes a considerable part of his time to reporting activities. Moreover, he insisted that he even built his literary texts on the principle of a newspaper article. However, those who read his journalism will say with confidence that the situation was exactly the opposite: Marquez wrote his newspaper and magazine articles not as dry reports, but as real works of art. And this fully applies to the central work of the collection – “Scandal of the Century”, written in the genre of a documentary detective story. The author masterfully captures the reader's attention from the very first words and does not let go until the very last page. * * * On April 9, 1953, the young Roman beauty Vilma Montesi left home and did not return. A day later, her body - scantily clad, but without signs of sexual violence - was washed ashore by sea waves. The police suspect an accident. And in fact, who could stop the daughter of a respectable carpenter and the happy bride of a young policeman? Thus begins a dizzying criminal story that shocked the whole of Italy, in which gangsters and pop stars, “golden youth” and major politicians, actresses, adventurers and elite “nightlife” were involved. butterflies.” The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.