TEHRAN-Two books from detective book series written by Friedrich Glauser have hit the Iranian book market.

“In Matto's Realm” and “Krock & Co.” have been translated by Katayoun Soltani and published by Hila Publications, Mehr reported.

The publishing house had previously published two other books from the same series namely “Fever” and “Wachtmeister Studer,” which have Sergeant Studer, a detective, as the main character.

“In Matto's Realm,” a child-murderer escapes from a Swiss insane asylum. The stakes get higher when Detective 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.

In “Krock & Co.” the Spoke opens at the wedding between Sgt. Jakob Studer's daughter and a young police constable, held at a small hotel run by an old schoolmate of Studer. Before the evening is over, another hotel guest (not a member of the wedding party) has been murdered. The unusual weapon chosen, a sharpened bicycle spoke, leads Studer and the local police to suspect the town's bicycle repairman, a gentle but mentally slow man who was severely abused during childhood.

Friedrich Glauser (1896-1938) was a German-language Swiss writer. Often referred to as the Swiss Simenon, he is famous for his detective stories and the main character he created, Sergeant Studer.

Glauser's elegant prose and acute observation conjure up a world of those at the margins of society. Sergeant Studer novels have ensured his place as a cult figure in Europe. Germany's most prestigious crime fiction award is called the Glauser Prize. Since 1987, the annual prize has been one of the best-known German-language crime writing awards.

The Sergeant Studer detective novels are set in the Switzerland and Europe of the 1930s, and make frequent reference to European history, such as the Weimar Republic hyperinflation and the banking scams and scandals that marked that period.

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