Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,â and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place somewhere in Central Europeâ and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, …

The mystery follows Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. The thriller brings existential …