Subgénero: Mystery
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Oh dear (The Mother of dramas) (Madre (el drama padre))
Four twin sisters are going to get married to four twin brothers. Despite rumors arising about them being all siblings, they end up getting married. Little by little new characters appear and we start discovering that no one is the child of whom it seems to be, there is no certainty about any of it. …
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A coming and going husband (Un marido de ida y vuelta)
Pepe and Leticia are married. Pepe realizes that his death is near and makes Paco Yepes, a friend of the family, to promise that he will not marry Leticia if she is a widow, since Pepe knows that Leticia finds Paco charming. The presentiment ends up becoming reality once Pepe is dead: Paco and Leticia…
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Blondes are better with potatoes (Como mejor están las rubias es con patatas)
Doctor Ulises has been gone for 15 years, disappeared in the African jungle. Now he has come back to civilization. This situation is complicated for his former wife who has remarried Bernardo. With Ulises’ return, the marriage is invalid. Also, the Doctor seems to have gone crazy after living with the native: he is kind…
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Mr. Garcia’s corpse (El cadáver del señor García)
Abelardo and his fiancée Hortensia toast for their future happy marriage. Mr. Garcia, one of their guests, is desperate and thinks of hiding in the living-room next door to commit suicide. The two lovers, the house-keepers, some friends and neighbors -among which are a coronel, a priest, a Russian and a forensic surgeon- form the…
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Eloísa is under an almond tree (Eloísa está debajo de un almendro)
This story has as its basis 11 main characters. The main theme is articulated by Fernando’s story, the protagonist, who comes back home after his father's death. In a letter his father left, he asks him to solve a crime: the murder of a woman that took place years ago. This takes Fernando to a…
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The honesty of the lock (La honradez de la cerradura)
A bourgeois marriage is visited by The Lady, a lender who asks them to keep some money because she fears that it can be stolen by the maid. The Husband and wife accept, although they are surprised and overwhelmed by the request of the stranger. The next morning, the Lady dies, so the marriage decides…
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Adoration (Adoración)
A scream, a shot gun… Eulalia has killed her husband Isidoro after a violent argument. Rosendo, who is deeply in love with her, pleads guilty of the crime to protect her. Finally, Eulalia confesses her crime to her children and declares that all Rosendo did was to help her, preparing everything to make it look…
