The Chinaman

Author:   Mike Mitchell ,  Fredrich Glauser
Publisher:   Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN:  

9781904738213


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   02 February 2007
Format:   Paperback
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The Chinaman


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When, in later years, Sergeant Studer told the story of the Chinaman, he also called it the story of the three places as the case unfolded in a country inn, in a poorhouse and in a horticultural college, all in Pfrundisberg, a Swiss village - three places but also two murders. Anna Hungerlott, supposedly dead of a gastric influenza, left behind handkerchiefs with traces of arsenic. And one foggy November morning, the enigmatic James Farny, nicknamed the Chinaman by Studer, was found lying on Anna's grave, murdered with a single pistol shot to the heart that did not hole his clothing. Did the fact that the poorhouse inmates had to survive on watery cabbage soup while the Warden drank vintage wines have anything to do with the murders? Perhaps. Studer must reconstitute the Chinaman's story, a voyage through asylums, reform schools and institutions for the destitute that, incidentally, were an integral part of Glauser's short life.

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Author:   Mike Mitchell ,  Fredrich Glauser
Publisher:   Bitter Lemon Press
Imprint:   Bitter Lemon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.181kg
ISBN:  

9781904738213


ISBN 10:   1904738214
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   02 February 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Friedrich Glauser is a legendary figure in European crime writing. He was a morphine and opium addict much of his life and began writing crime novels while an inmate at the Swiss insane asylum Waldau.

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