The Basel Killings - Couverture souple

Schneider, Hansjoerg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913394549 ISBN 13 : 9781913394547

Editeur : Bitter Lemon Press, 2021

Synopsis

It is the end of October, the northern Swiss city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man Hardy sitting on a bench under a streetlight. He wants to smoke a cigarette with him, but the usually very loquacious Hardy is silent - his throat a gaping wound. Turns out he was first strangled, then his left earlobe slit, his diamond stud stolen. The media and the police come quickly to the same conclusion: Hardy's murder was the work of a gang of Albanian drug smugglers.

But for Hunkeler that seems too obvious. Hardy's murder has much in common with the case of Barbara Amsler, a prostitute also found killed with an ear slit, and her pearl stud missing. He follows his own intuition and the trail leads him deep into a dark world of bars, bordellos and strip clubs, but also into the corrupt core of some of Basel's political and industrial elite. More ominously, he will soon discover the consequences of certain events in recent Swiss history that those in power would prefer to keep far from the public eye.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Hansjörg Schneider, born in Aarau, Switzerland, in 1938, worked as a teacher, and journalist. He is one of the most performed playwrights in the German language but is best known for his Inspector Hunkeler crime novels. Schneider has received numerous awards, among them the prestigious Friedrich Glauser Prize for The Basel Killings. He lives and writes in Basel.

Mike Mitchell lives in Scotland and has published over eighty translations from German and French, including all the Friedrich Glauser Sergeant Studer novels and Gustav Meyrink's five novels. His translation of Rosendorfer's 'Letters Back to Ancient China' won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bitter Lemon Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913394549
• ISBN 13: 9781913394547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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