Obsessive Police Sergeant Studer investigates a pair of strange
murders in a strange land.A pleasant meal at a Parisian bistro
turns positively giddy for the imposing Studer, a German-born
former Detective Inspector working his way back up the ranks since
being busted after a scandal (In Matto's Realm, Jan. 2006, etc.).
The liberal drinking is interrupted by an exciting telegram telling
him that he's become a grandfather for the first time. When his
host, Commissaire Madelin, asks Studer to accompany him to Basel on
minor police business, the incurably curious Studer accepts.
They're joined by Father Matthias, a silky-voiced cleric who weaves
a baroque tale of a clairvoyant colonel and a pair of women
Matthias thinks are in danger. Indeed, two elderly women are found
dead in their flats, both gassed, one in Bern and one in Basel.
Local police are inclined to rule both deaths accidental, but not
Studer, whose iconoclastic and sometimes paranoid probe spans the
nation and stretches back a generation. The ensuing plot, like
Studer's life, favors the scenic route over tight logic and
methodical analysis. Quirky characters abound. Studer dabbles in
early fingerprint and fiber analysis, trades crime theories with
his equally eccentric wife and nearly dies after being arrested in
a massive misunderstanding.First published in 1936, Glauser's
offbeat tale, alternately chilling and droll, offers welcome
insight into early European crime fiction. (Kirkus Reviews)
When two women are "accidently" killed by gas leaks, Sergeant
Studer investigates the thinly disguised double murder in Bern and
Basel. The trail leads to a geologist dead from a tropical fever in
a Moroccan Foreign Legion post and a murky oil deal involving
rapacious politicians and their henchmen. With the help of a
hashish-induced dream and the common sense of his stay-at-home
wife, Studer solves the multiple riddles on offer. But assigning
guilt remains an elusive affair. "Fever", a European crime classic,
was first published in 1936. It has been translated into four
languages. This is its first publication in English and the third
in the "Sergeant Studer" series published by Bitter Lemon Press.
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