An early look at Friedrich Glauser’s “The Spoke”
A body is discovered during a wedding banquet. The first words out of Studer’s mouth – after his deadpan consideration of the odd murder weapon – are these: “Just look at this, Bärtu. Why the hell did we listen to our womenfolk?” Who is Bärtu? A fellow police officer. Studer’s new son-in-law. The wedding banquet was that of Studer’s daughter, and Glauser relates these essential facts in the same order that I have here.
Sometimes humor lies not in what one says but in how one says it.
© Peter Rozovsky 2008
Bitter Lemon Press
Swiss crime fiction