[1][3] Margarita Landi was one of the first women to specialize in the journalistic genre of crime reporting, which had traditionally been limited to men.
From there she went to La Moda de España (1948–1954),[1] as a chronicler of haute couture and society, also contributing to the newspaper Informaciones [es] and the magazine Esfera Mundial.
[1] It was from that moment that she began to cultivate the image for which she was known: a sophisticated and reflective blonde woman who smoked a pipe and raced to crime scenes in a black Volkswagen convertible.
[2][4] Her tenacity in examining crime scenes and interviewing witnesses was compared to that of American writer Truman Capote.
She wrote several books, including Cosas de la vida, Una mujer junto al crimen, Crímenes sin castigo, Puerta del Sol, 2.30, Crónica sangrienta, and Memorias.