Thumbprint (Sergeant Studer Mystery)

by Mike Mitchell (Author), Mike Mitchell (Author)

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  2004

  $3.34

  It s a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a period which some regard as the golden age of crime fiction. The Sunday TelegraphThe death of a traveling salesman appears to be an open and shut case. Studer is confronted with an obvious suspect and a confession to the murder. But nothing is what it seems. Envy, hatred, and the corrosive power of money lie just beneath the surface. Studer s investigation soon splinters the glassy facade of Switzerland s tidy villages and manicured forests.Diagnosed a schizophrenic, addicted to morphine and opium, Friedrich Glauser spent the greater part of his life in psychiatric wards, insane asylums and prison. His acute observations conjure up a world of those at the margins of society.