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European crime classic
false confession mystery
Friedrich Durrenmatt novel
gruppe olten
Hollywood film adaptation
Inspector Matthai
Jack Nicholson thriller film
Language_English
literary crime
literary noir
moral ambiguity thriller
obsessive detective story
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psychological noir thriller
relentless pursuit of killer
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swiss crime
Swiss mountain murder
switzerland noir
Product details
- ISBN 9781782273394
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2017
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"'It's a promise, Frau Moser,' the inspector said, impelled solely by the desire to leave this place.
"'On your eternal salvation?'
"The inspector hesitated. 'On my eternal salvation,' he finally said. What else could he do?
When a young girl is found brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest, the brilliant Inspector Matthai can't put the case behind him. Not even when a local felon is arrested. Not even once the suspect has confessed.
Matthai promises the girl's mother that he will stop at nothing to find the real killer.
Adapted into a Hollywood film, The Pledge is the chilling story of a man in desperate search of the truth. A man driven to sacrifice everything, to commit acts of cruelty and obsession in a desperate search for a killer he can't find.
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.
