In Matto's Realm
by Friedrich Glauser

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Finalist for the 2005 CWA Gold Dagger Award.

A child murderer escapes from an insane asylum in Bern. The stakes get higher when Sergeant Studer discovers the director’s body, neck broken, in the boiler room of the madhouse. The intuitive Studer is drawn into the workings of an institution that darkly mirrors the world outside. Even he cannot escape the pull of the no-man's-land between reason and madness where Matto, the spirit of insanity, reigns.

Translated into four languages, In Matto’s Realm was originally published in 1936. This European crime classic, now available for the first time in English, is the second in the Sergeant Studer series from Bitter Lemon Press.

Author Information
Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna in 1896. Often referred to as the Swiss Simenon, he died aged forty-two a few days before he was due to be married. Diagnosed a schizophrenic, addicted to morphine...

The Translator
Mike Mitchell has translated some thirty books, including 'Simplicissimus' by Grimmelshausen and all the novels of Gustav Meyrink. He won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck German translation prize.

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Praise for In Matto's Realm
''Studer investigates the death of an asylum director following the escape of a child murderer...'' The Guardian

''This golden age gem contains echoes of Dürrenmatt, Fritz Lang's film M and Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain...'' Publishers Weekly