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The Blunderer
Published by Diogenes as Der Stümper
                    Original Title: The Blunderer
                        The bookseller Kimmel has murdered his unfaithful wife Helen, but has provided himself with such a watertight alibi that he cannot be suspected of the crime. The attorney Stackhouse is also unhappily married. Since reading a newspaper article on the unsolved Kimmel murder and visiting the cheerful widower, he has been entertaining dark thoughts. But his wife is one step ahead of him …
        
    »Highsmith has an uncanny feeling for the rhythms of terror.«
        
                         
Times Literary Supplement, London
        
    »Ingenious ... makes a cold clutch at the reader's deeper security.«
        
                         
Punch, London