Switzerland
Tidy villages, murder and the corrosive power of money

'From bitter experience Glauser has painted a portrait of Switzerland you will never see in a travel brochure' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

To the tourists the Swiss show an impenetrable picture-postcard of perfection. The trains are on time, the streets are spotless and geraniums garland every window. But as you read the Sergeant Studer novels of Friedrich Glauser you discover that nothing is what it seems. Envy, hatred, sexual abuse and the corrosive power of money lie just beneath the surface. Studer’s investigations soon splinter the glassy façade of Switzerland’s tidy villages, manicured forests and smug citizens.

Glauser began writing crime novels while an inmate at the Swiss insane asylum Waldau. His elegant prose and acute observation conjure up a world of those at the margins of society lorded over by a small self-obsessed elite willing to resort to violent crime to protect its interests. He described Switzerland in the 1930’s, a country obsessed with money, with the power of the ever secretive banks and uncomfortable in the shadow of its large neighbours. How little things have changed.

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Links
Glauser-Crimetime Article
www.crimetime.co.uk/ make_page.php?id=42

Glauser- Wegbereiter des deutschsprachigen Kriminalromans
www.detektivroman.de/ autoren/ autoren_40.htm

Glauser-Biografie (Gutenberg Projekt)
gutenberg.spiegel.de/ autoren/ glauser.htm

Glauser-Ein Leben am Rande
www.culturactif.ch/ ecrivains/ glauser.htm

Glauser-krimi-couch
www.krimi-couch.de/ krimis/ friedrich-glauser.html

Glauser- Mit Komik und Ironie gegen die Gesetze der Psychologie
www.literaturkritik.de/ public/ rezension.php?rez_id=3490

Glauser-Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren
ourworld.compuserve.com/ homepages/ KARR_WEHNER/ glauser.htm

Glauser und Dada
www.banz.tv/text_glauser.html