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 Der Richter und sein Henker [The Judge and His Hangman] is a novella by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt written in 1950. It was first published in English in 1955, in a translation by Therese Pol. A new translation by Joel Agee appeared in 2006,... 
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 Critical Essay by G. F. Benham
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 On the face of it Dürrenmatt's first essay into [the detective story], Der Richter und sein Henker, contains sufficient traditional elements to explain its abiding popularity…. Written as it was in installments it enjoys all the sculptured, architechonic advantages of the Roman Feuilleton. (p. 147) On first reading Dürrenmatt's Der Richter und sein Henker one is struck by the strangeness, the disconcerting oddity of the overall impression which this novel leaves. Where, on...
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