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It is not often that I give 5 stars for a book I have read, nothing is perfect, but I have become a Friedrich Glauser fan, although the stories around the Criminal inspector Studer all come form the 1930's. I had seen the Swiss film of The Chinese (who is not chinese actually) and decided to read th Leggi tutto

One of Glauser's Sgt. Studer crime novels, and the first I've read, it has the flavor more of a Sherlock Holmes story with somewhat unrealistic conclusions reached in order to resolve the mystery. But Studer is an interesting, flawed character nonetheless. He seems to stumble a bit on his way to ult Leggi tutto

Maigret-esque. Fabulous. Terse.

Man muss ihn mögen. Vor allem wenn man ihn über die nachmaligen Verfilmungen vom Schweizer Fernsehen kennt, jenen Pionier des deutschsprachigen Maigret-Romans à la Suisse. Früh verstorben, unglücklich gelebt, von einer unfassbar poetischen Sprachkraft. All das stimmt und doch langweilt man sich fürc Leggi tutto

Un giallo classico e carino. Risente un po’ di una nota di vecchio, nei personaggi, nei dialoghi, nelle “atmosfere”. L’autore è di poco più giovane della Christie ma sembra più vecchio.