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Actually I Never read Dürrenmatt in school, but I want read him with my own class. So, I had to start at some point of his work, why not the detective novel? I really liked it even though the culprit was clear relatively early, but I wanted to know how he gets rounded up in the end. The way Dürrenmatt makes jokes about the different Swiss regions is well done as well.

Village Police Officer finds a corpse in a car and decides to drive the crime scene with the corpse to the comissioner‘s office in the next big town. 🙈 Police operations 100 years ago.

Although I have a feeling the deeper meanings were lost on me, I am happy to have read it. Surprised by its actually surprising twists and turns and his ability to create incredible suspense without needing much action. The initially seemingly lazy and disillusioned detective turns in to a very special kind of hero.

Atmospheric cover!

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If we don't end up in his next novel... it'll be a miracle.

Like almost all kids in the German speaking psrts of Switzerland I read this one in school. And I did not dislike it! I remembered parts of it over 20 years, which I think is impressive. Now after reading it again I'm still impressed. Dürrenmatt is playing with the reader and his/her expectations like Bärlach is playing with the people in the book.