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Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider (2021, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Basel Killings, Paperback by Schneider, Hansjörg; Mitchell, Mike (TRN), ISBN 1913394549, ISBN-13 9781913394547, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBitter Lemon Press
ISBN-101913394549
ISBN-139781913394547
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050401252
Product Key Features
Book TitleBasel Killings
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorHansjörg Schneider
Book SeriesThe Inspector Hunkeler Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsSTARRED REVIEW: "Swiss author Schneider's excellent first mystery and series launch...gripping, plausible debut bodes well for future entries." Publishers Weekly "Schneider has created a wonderful protagonist: gnarly, edgy and sympathetic. " Hamburger Abendblatt "Not a word too many, but also not a word too few". Rheinische Post, "Schneider's crime novels are addictive. As soon as one murder is seemingly solved, you are yearning for a new scoundrel. An obvious sign of addiction! Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich "Schneider has created a wonderful protagonist: gnarly, edgy and sympathetic. " Hamburger Abendblatt "Not a word too many, but also not a word too few". Rheinische Post
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal833.92
SynopsisIt is the end of October, the city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man Hardy sitting on a bench under a street light. He wants to smoke a cigarette with him, but the usually very loquacious Hardy is silent--his throat a gaping wound. Turns out he was first strangled, then his left earlobe slit, his diamond stud stolen. The media and the police come quickly to the same conclusion: Hardy's murder was the work of a gang of Albanian drug smugglers. But for Hunkeler that seems too obvious. Hardy's murder has much in common with the case of Barbara Amsler, a prostitute also found killed, with an ear slit and pearl stud missing. He follows his own intuition and the trail leads him deep into an edgy world of bars and strip clubs, but also into the corrupt core of some of Basel's political and industrial elite. More ominously, he will soon discover the consequences of certain events in recent Swiss history that those in power would prefer to keep far from the public eye., 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., It is the end of October, the northern Swiss city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man Hardy sitting on a bench under a streetlight. He wants to smoke a cigarette with him, but the usually very loquacious Hardy is silent - his throat a gaping wound. Turns out he was first strangled, then his left earlobe slit, his diamond stud stolen. The media and the police come quickly to the same conclusion: Hardy's murder was the work of a gang of Albanian drug smugglers. But for Hunkeler that seems too obvious. Hardy's murder has much in common with the case of Barbara Amsler, a prostitute also found killed with an ear slit, and her pearl stud missing. He follows his own intuition and the trail leads him deep into a dark world of bars, bordellos and strip clubs, but also into the corrupt core of some of Basel's political and industrial elite. More ominously, he will soon discover the consequences of certain events in recent Swiss history that those in power would prefer to keep far from the public eye.
LC Classification NumberPT2680.N344
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