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Misteriosa Buenos Aires –Spanish for Mysterious Buenos Aires – was written by Manuel Bernabé Mujica Láinez (Buenos Aires,1910 - Cruz Chica, Córdoba, 1984) in 1950 which talks about ghosts, supernatural stories and other imaginary or real tales of B.A. The book has 42 short stories about the biggest Argentinian city. It tells what Lainez knew about B.A. and its fictions. Misteriosa Buenos Aires, Manuel Mujica Lainez. Ed. Sudamericana One of them is La Galera –The wagon–. This short story talks about a woman who had to travel to B.A. from Córdoba –a crowded city of Argentina- because she had killed her own sister to inherit her fortune. The story begins when Catalina Vargas –the murderer– was traveling by wagon with the gold of Lucrecia Vargas –her dead sister– and suffering with her partners because it was so hot. They couldn’t open the window because there was too much dust outside the wagon. She remembered how she had changed the medicines to her sister and how she escape...