The Basel Killings :Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler Investigates - Inspector Hunkeler Investigates

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The Basel Killings

The Basel Killings :Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler Investigates - Inspector Hunkeler Investigates

3.34 (285 Ratings by Goodreads)
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It is the end of October, the city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man Hardy sitting on a bench under a street light. He wants to smoke a cigarette with him, but the usually very loquacious Hardy is silent-his throat a gaping wound. Turns out he was first strangled and his left earlobe slit, the diamond stud he usually wore there missing. The media and the police come quickly to the same conclusion: Hardy's murder was the work of a gang of Albanian drug smugglers. But for Hunkeler that seems too obvious a resolution. After all, Barabara Amsler, a prostitute, was also recently found strangled, her ear slit. He follows his own intuition and methods which lead him deep into a seedy world of bars and night clubs. More ominously, he soon must face the consequences of certain events in recent Swiss history that those in power would prefer to keep far from the public eye.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781913394547
ISBN10 1913394549
Number Of Pages 268
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Bitter Lemon Press
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

Hansjoerg Schneider (born 1938) lives in Basel and is the author of a number of highly acclaimed plays and the bestselling Hunkeler crime series. "The Basel Killings" was awarded The Friedrich Glauser Prize, Germany's most prestigious crime fiction prize.

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