The Judge and His Hangman
Author(s): Friedrich Durrenmatt
A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists.Inspector Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. This is a thriller that brings existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence
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Friedrich D rrenmatt (1921-1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist, most famous for his plays The Visit and The Physicists, which earned him a reputation as one of the greatest playwrights in the German language. He also wrote four highly regarded crime novels - The Pledge, The Judge and His Hangman, Suspicion and The Execution of Justice, all of which will be published by Pushkin Vertigo.
General Fields
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- : Pushkin Press
- : Pushkin Press
- : 01 April 2017
- : 178mm X 111mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : 128
- : 833.914
- : 1711
- : Paperback
- : Friedrich Durrenmatt