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|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)
|title=The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after the Second World War. A man has been found on a remote mountain road. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Leading the investigation is Inspector Barlach, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness for new-fangled ideas of criminology, but he has employed Tschanz to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence and to share it, and not rely on gut instincts. Neither particularly want to be out in all weathers sorting the crime, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they aren't saying. What had he been up to, and which way of policing the case will get to the answers first?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patrice Chaplin
|summary=Books enable us to travel places that we can only dream of; we can walk on the moon, or sink to the deepest depths of the ocean. However, not all books have to be spectacular to be great; simple pleasures can also be good. Taking a child to a petting zoo is one of the most fun outings a family can do, but what happens when you are having an indoor day? Pick up ''Fluffy Chick'' and bring the simple joy of the petting zoo to you.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834354</amazonuk>
}}