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Chapter 1
The narrator opens on the morning Santiago Nasar is killed, then immediately tells us he is going to die. The whole town seems to know about the murder plot before it happens, yet…
Chapter 2
The narrator reconstructs the wedding of Bayardo San Roman and Angela Vicario the night before the murder. Bayardo is wealthy and arrives in town like someone who expects to get w…
Chapter 3
The narrator pieces together what the Vicario twins did in the hours before the murder, using testimony collected years later.
Chapter 4
The narrator examines the official investigation conducted by the magistrate after the murder. The chapter is built around the magistrate's notes, which the narrator has obtained.
Chapter 5
The final chapter returns to the murder itself in close detail, then follows the aftermath for the town and the narrator.
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