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Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Der Verdacht | English Title: The Quarry<br>Novel, 128 Pages

Novel, Paperback
128 Pages
Published in June 1995

ISBN 978-3-257-21436-9
€ (D) 8.90 / (A) 9.20
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Der Verdacht

English Title: The Quarry

Hans Barlach, an ageing policeman, comes across a photograph of a masked surgeon in a magazine. His suspicion is aroused. Does the mask hide the face of a former S.S. officer who performed horrible operations without the use of anaesthesia? Could the former S.S. officer still be enjoying the pursuit of his sadistic practices in a peaceful Berne clinic? Barlach decides he must enter the clinic to discover the truth. His companions in horror include a fanatical nurse, a beautiful ex-Communist drug addict, a murderous dwarf, and a mysterious Jew, Gulliver, who because of his past can divide mankind into only two groups: the tortured and torturers.

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»An absorbing horror tale told with skill and restraint. The characterisation throughout excellent.«Yorkshire Post

»Once I got into the story I could no more have stopped reading than the drug addict in the book could have given up morphine.«Chicago Tribune

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