The Judge and His Hangman
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Judge and His Hangman
By (Author) Friedrich Drrenmatt
Translated by Joel Agee
Pushkin Press
Pushkin Vertigo
25th October 2017
20th April 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
833.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 111mm, Height 178mm
Description
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
Reviews
It's a detective story that gladly upends some of the genre's stereotypes. It is a tribute to Durrenmatt's huge literary talent that this holds true even if looked at from a contemporary perspective Thriller Books Journal Spellbinding Washington Post Seldom have I found anything as hard to put down... a detective thriller stripped down to its essence Ready When You Are Breathtaking What Are You Reading For I eagerly await the sequel Bookbag
Author Bio
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.
