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A policeman is dead and Inspector Barlach has a hunch about the murderer. Bernard Hepton reads Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella

No ordinary case, when a policeman is murdered.

No ordinary case, when the suspect is a highly respected diplomat.

No ordinary case, when the man in charge of it is the slow-footed, quick-witted Inspector Barlach of the Berne Police.

Extraordinary, when he has only a short while to live and a formidable wager to win at the same time.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt's thrilling tale of lifelong rivalry, first published in 1951,

Read by Bernard Hepton.

Producer Maurice Leitch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1984.

15 minutes

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