Chapter 16
On the night before the interview appeared on the newsstands a new murder had muddied the waters for my colleague. According to the coroner, it had been committed between 2:00 am and 4:00am and, as a result, the newspapers would announce news of it only the following day. Despite Carla's argument of Corona’s guilt, the new crime had presented particular aspects that did not connect to the architect.
The victim was a Brazilian transvestite who sold himself in the Pellerina area, a thirty-five-year-old viado22 , known to the Vice Squad, who worked under the nickname of Pescadoro, a certain Agostinho Rodrigues for our Immigration Office and the Job Office and, as would be confirmed, for the Registry Office of São Paulo. Thus the murder victim had not been a work colleague of the
