✍ Scribed by Friedrich Glauser
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"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 Durrenmatt, 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...
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