Before You Read: There are some great sites on Gabriel Garcia Marquez and so0me specifically on Chronicle of a Death Foretold--

The best place to start is Macondo, a wonderful and informative site that includes a short biography and other helpful links. And here is another biography of Garcia Marquez written by Petri Liukkonen from his Books and Writers Website.

Here is author and critic Leonard Michaels' excellent New York Times Review of Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

Repertorio Español, a Spanish language repertory theatre in New York City, regularly presents a one-act play based on Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Here is a review (written by Allen B. Ruch of Macondo) of an early production of that adaptation.

There is also a 1988 film version of Chronicle.