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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 the hope of forcing him to reveal himself.
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Suspicion (German: Der Verdacht) is a detective novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt in 1950 featuring the Inspector Bärlach. It has also been published as The Quarry. It is the sequel to Dürrenmatt's The Judge and His Hangman.
Sep 5, 2014 · Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt is one of the most highly regarded 20th century dramatists of the German-speaking world. Early on in his career, however, he turned to crime fiction and wrote The Judge and His Hangman for a very personal reason – he needed money to pay his wife’s hospital bills.
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Nov 1, 2006 · 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 the hope of forcing him to reveal himself. The result is two thrillers that bring existential philosophy and the ...
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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 the hope of forcing him to reveal himself.
Barlach has served in Constantinople and Weimar Germany, but he is a believer in old-fashioned detective work and mistrusts the new-fangled criminal science. He is an old man, near the end of his career and, it turns out, with a disease that leaves him only a year to live.
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Commissar Bärlach of the Bernese police, who is dying of cancer, must solve the murder of his best officer, Lieutenant Ulrich Schmied. Bärlach is assisted in his investigation by officer Walter Tschanz.
