The Spoke: A Sergeant Studer Mystery

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Why must the festive dinner in the Hirschen Inn be interrupted A murder puts an end to the wedding celebration of Studer's daughter. A man is found with a sharpened bicycle spoke embedded in his back, and a suspect is quickly arrested - a bit too quickly, thinks Studer. Property speculation, usury and betrayed love find their way into this tightly written mystery novel that calls on Studer's intuitive, often absurd, yet efficient police methods. "The Spoke", a European crime classic, was first published in 1937. It has been translated into six languages. This is its first publication in English.

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Praise for Glauser's other Sergeant Studer novels:"Glauser was among the best European crime writers of the inter-war years. The detail, place and sinister characters are so intelligently sculpted that the sense of foreboding is palpable." Glasgow Herald"Fever is a deviously plotted procedural. Not many can outdo Friedrich Glauser..." New York Times"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." Sunday Telegraph"A despairing plot about the reality of madness and life, leavened at regular intervals with strong doses of bittersweet irony. The idiosyncratic investigation of In Matto's Realm and its laconic detective have not aged one iota." Guardian

Author Bio

Friedrich Glauser is a legendary figure in European crime writing. He was a morphine and opium addict much of his life and began writing crime novels while an inmate at the Swiss insane asylum Waldau. Germany's most prestigious crime fiction award is called the Glauser prize.