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13%OFFRoger Hargreaves - The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion - 9780226174440 - V9780226174440
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The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion

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Description for The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion Paperback. Translator(s): Agee, Joel. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. And in Suspicion, Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into his clinic with ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226174440
SKU
V9780226174440
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