Honorio Bustos Domecq

Honorio Bustos Domecq is the fictional author of several collections of detective stories: Six problems for don Isidro Parodi (published in 1942), A model for the death (1946), Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1967) and New stories by Bustos Domecq (1977). They were written in collaboration between the Argentine writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

The work is preceded by a brief biography of the supposed author by a teacher named Adelma Badoglio, as well as a fortunate presentation by a certain Gervasio Montenegro, an imaginary colleague and friend of Honorio Bustos. Gervasio Montenegro also appears as a character, a famous actor accused of murder, in some of the stories that he is supposed to preface.

According to his biographer, Honorio Bustos Domecq, he was born in the Argentine town of Pujato and was a precocious writer who published his first works in the Rosario press at the age of 10. He was an eminent polygraph and during Labruna's intervention he was appointed Education Inspector and, later, Defender of the Poor.

The origin of the pseudonym consists of the meeting of the surnames of a Cordovan maternal great-grandfather of Borges (Bustos) and Bioy's great-grandfather (Domecq).

Another pseudonym used by Borges and Bioy Casares was Benito Suárez Lynch.