The Basel Killings

Hansjörg Schneider (Author) Mike Mitchell (Translator)

Description

STARRED REVIEW "Swiss author Schneider's excellent first mystery and series launch...gripping, plausible debut bodes well for future entries." Publishers Weekly--------- It all begins with two murders, an old man found dead on a street bench in Basel and a prostitute pulled out of a nearby lake. Both strangled and both found with their left earlobes slit. Inspector Hunkeler of the Basel police investigates and is soon faced with the consequences of certain recent events in Swiss history that everyone wants to keep buried.

Product Details

Price

$15.95 $14.83

Publisher

Bitter Lemon Press

Publish Date

July 20, 2021

Pages

268

Dimensions

4.9 X 7.7 X 0.9 inches | 0.55 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9781913394547

BISAC Categories:

Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural

Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery

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About the Author

Hansjörg Schneider (born 1938) lives in Basel and began his professional career as a journalist and essayist. He is the author of several highly acclaimed plays and the bestselling Hunkeler crime series, which now has ten titles published. "The Basel Killings" was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize, Germany's most prestigious crime fiction prize.

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.

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