Praise for Friedrich Glauser's other Sergeant Studer novels:
"Thumbprint is a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a
period which fans will regard as the golden age of crime fiction."--The
Sunday Telegraph
"In Matto's Realm is both a compelling mystery and an illuminating,
finely wrought mainstream novel."--Publishers Weekly
"A despairing plot about the reality of madness and life, leavened with
strong doses of bittersweet irony. The idiosyncratic investigation of
In Matto's Realm and its laconic detective have not aged one
iota."--Guardian
"With good reason, the German-language prize for detective fiction is
named after Glauser. . . . He has Simenon's ability to turn a stereotype
into a person, and the moral complexity to appeal to justice over the
head of police procedure."--The Times Literary Supplement
When two women are "accidentally" killed by gas leaks, Sergeant Studer
investigates the thinly disguised double murder in Bern and Basel. The
trail leads to a geologist dead from a tropical fever in a Moroccan
Foreign Legion post and a murky oil deal involving rapacious politicians
and their henchmen. With the help of a hashish-induced dream and the
common sense of his stay-at-home wife, Studer solves the multiple
riddles on offer. But assigning guilt remains an elusive affair.
The third in the Sergeant Studer series.