The Basel Killings (The Inspector Hunkeler Series, 1)

Schneider, Hansjà rg

ISBN 10: 1913394549 / ISBN 13: 9781913394547

Published by Bitter Lemon Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Basel Killings (The Inspector Hunkeler Series, 1)
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913394549
• ISBN 13: 9781913394547
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Hansjörg Schneider (born 1938) lives in Basel and began his professional career as a journalist and essayist. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed plays and of the bestselling Peter Hunkeler crime series, now with 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.