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The Chinaman [electronic resource] : A Sergeant Studer Mystery

Friedrich Glauser2008
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"After reading Friedrich Glauser's dark tour de force In Matto's Realm, it's easy to see why the German equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award is dubbed 'The Glauser.'"-The Washington Post Praise for the Sergeant Studer series: "Thumbprint is a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a period which fans will regard as the golden age of crime fiction."-The Sunday Telegraph "In Matto's Realm is a gem that contains echoes of Dürrenmatt, Fritz Lang's film M and Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. Both a compelling mystery and an illuminating, finely wrought mainstream novel."-Publishers Weekly When, in later years, Sergeant Studer told the story of the Chinaman, he called it the story of three places, as the case unfolded in a Swiss country inn, in a poorhouse, and in a horticultural college. Three places and two murders. Anna Hungerlott, supposedly dead from gastric influenza, left behind handkerchiefs with traces of arsenic. One foggy November morning the en...
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bitter Lemon Press, 2008
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (186 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781913394042
Language:
English
BRN:
428916
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