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Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist, most famous for his plays The Visit and The Physicists, which earned him a reputation as one of the greatest playwrights in the German language. He also wrote four highly regarded crime novels - The Pledge, The Judge and His Hangman, Suspicion and The Execution of Justice, all of which will be published by Pushkin Vertigo.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