The Judge and His Hangman could be devoured in a single sitting, its haunting contents continuing to unspool for days after the backcover folds over.
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The Executioner Weeps: A heady tale of memory loss and dread by Frederic Dard
Reading The Executioner Weeps is reminder of how direct and well-paced a crime novel can be.
Kidnappings and political trappings: Rediscovering Gregory Mcdonald’s Snatch via Hard Case Crime
Wonderfully adept at weaving in new characters, Mcdonald takes a simple melody and orchestrates it into a cacophony of noise. It demands your attention.
Requiem for the Detective Novel: The case for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 masterpiece The Pledge
What really happens to a policeman who can’t solve his most important case? What becomes of a pillar of society whose foundations are crumbling?
Summer Before The Dark: Writing, alcohol and exile with literature’s émigrés in 1930s Belgium
They read, they write, they drink, they have affairs, they probe, they hide, they hurtle towards their own oblivion, their lives “lived out, in order to be described”.
The mystery of the missing crime novel: Sinner Man by Lawrence Block
Half a century in the making, Sinner Man is one of crime fiction’s most exhilarating rediscoveries.
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