The Spoke

ISBN-13: 9781904738275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 165 str.

Friedrich Glauser; Mike Mitchell

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Praise for Friedrich Glauser s other Sergeant Studer novels:

"Fever "is a deviously plotted procedural. Not many can outdo Friedrich Glauser. "The New York Times"

This gem 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, "Matto s Realm "will make it clear to American readers why the German language prize for detective fiction is named after Glauser. "Publishers Weekly"

"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"

This is the fifth, and last, novel in the much-acclaimed Sergeant Studer series. 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.

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 he was an inmate at the Swiss insane asylum Waldau."