{"product_id":"2026100006216-secondhand-the-judge-and-his-hangman","title":"The Judge And His Hangman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956437233883,"sku":"2026100006216-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/de11a519-36f5-4bbe-80e4-b086f477dbe5.png?v=1783501045","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006216-secondhand-the-judge-and-his-hangman","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}