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