The Execution of Justice
Friedrich Dürrenmatt author John E Woods translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:25th Jan '18
Should be back in stock very soon
A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him? As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime. This is a captivating neo-noir classic from the master of the genre. The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality.
The Swiss master of the astounding plot * Sunday Times Crime Club *
It's not that Dürrenmatt always took the road less chosen, more that he carved out an entirely different and perverse path through the literary undergrowth * Crime Time *
The novel has the most wonderful collection of strange and charismatic characters. Ingenious... original... challenging * Nudge Books *
A dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality * Publishers Weekly *
Audacious... Dürrenmatt's compelling handling of his favorite themes--the confusion of criminal and victim, the slippery relation between justice and morality, the guilty burden of social responsibility--makes Spat's funny, sad nightmare less like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd than like The Fall or The Crying of Lot 49 * Kirkus *
Dürrenmatt has the gift to create unforgettable characters within a few lines * LA Times *
ISBN: 9781782273875
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224 pages