The Judge and His Hangman

Author: Durrenmatt, Friedrich

Classic crime

Published on 20 April 2017 by Pushkin Press (Pushkin Vertigo) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 128 pages
114 x 178 x 12 | 96g

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