The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (9781782273417)

Description - The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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

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