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The Blunderer
Published by Diogenes as Der Stümper
Original Title: The Blunderer
The bookseller Kimmel has murdered his unfaithful wife Helen, but has provided himself with such a watertight alibi that he cannot be suspected of the crime. The attorney Stackhouse is also unhappily married. Since reading a newspaper article on the unsolved Kimmel murder and visiting the cheerful widower, he has been entertaining dark thoughts. But his wife is one step ahead of him …
»Highsmith has an uncanny feeling for the rhythms of terror.«
Times Literary Supplement, London
»Ingenious ... makes a cold clutch at the reader's deeper security.«
Punch, London