The Judge And His Hangman
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with chipping and wear along edges and corners. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A taut and masterfully constructed crime novel, The Judge and His Hangman is a landmark of Swiss-German literature set against the grey backdrop of post-war Switzerland. The story chronicles aging, terminally ill detective Inspector Bärlach, who is assigned to investigate the murder of a fellow officer and uses the case as a final gambit to settle a decades-old score with a criminal mastermind he has never been able to catch. Dürrenmatt strips the genre of its comfortable conventions, presenting a morally ambiguous world where justice and manipulation become indistinguishable, and the line between the law and lawlessness blurs dangerously. Written with razor-sharp economy and dark wit, the novel argues that true justice may require its servants to descend into the same shadows as the guilty. A profound meditation on fate, mortality, and the corruption of power, it remains one of the most compelling and unsettling crime novellas of the twentieth century.
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Jonathan Cape, London
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with chipping and wear along edges and corners. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A taut and masterfully constructed crime novel, The Judge and His Hangman is a landmark of Swiss-German literature set against the grey backdrop of post-war Switzerland. The story chronicles aging, terminally ill detective Inspector Bärlach, who is assigned to investigate the murder of a fellow officer and uses the case as a final gambit to settle a decades-old score with a criminal mastermind he has never been able to catch. Dürrenmatt strips the genre of its comfortable conventions, presenting a morally ambiguous world where justice and manipulation become indistinguishable, and the line between the law and lawlessness blurs dangerously. Written with razor-sharp economy and dark wit, the novel argues that true justice may require its servants to descend into the same shadows as the guilty. A profound meditation on fate, mortality, and the corruption of power, it remains one of the most compelling and unsettling crime novellas of the twentieth century.