A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him? As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime. This is a captivating neo-noir classic from the master of the genre. The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality.
| ISBN: | 9781782273875 |
| Publication date: | 25th January 2018 |
| Author: | Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Vertigo an imprint of Pushkin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Genres: |
Classic Crime and Mystery Fiction |