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Schneider, Hansjörg.
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Detectives -- Fiction
Diamond smuggling -- Fiction
Drug traffic -- Fiction
Organized crime -- Fiction
Basel (Switzerland) -- Fiction
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Schneider, Hansjörg.
Detectives -- Fiction
Diamond smuggling -- Fiction
Drug traffic -- Fiction
Organized crime -- Fiction
Basel (Switzerland) -- Fiction
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Silver pebbles /
Hansjörg
Schneider
, translated by Mike Mitchell.
by
Schneider
,
Hansjörg
.
Bitter Lemon Press, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION SCH
Subjects
Detectives -- Fiction
Diamond smuggling -- Fiction
Drug traffic -- Fiction
Organized crime -- Fiction
Basel (Switzerland) -- Fiction
Series
Schneider
,
Hansjörg
, 1938- Inspector Hunkeler series ; 2.
ISBN:
9781913394622 (trade pbk.)
Description:
205 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in German as Silberkiesel by Ammann Verlag, Zurich, 1993.
Translated from the German.
Summary:
A hunt for drug gang diamonds is keeping Basel Inspector Hunkeler on tenterhooks. Basel, nestled at the border of Switzerland with Germany and France, has been hammered by a huge snowstorm, cars and trams can barely move, trees are groaning under the weight of the recent snowfall, the cathedral and city roofs are smothered. An elegant young Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station, Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the German police. The courier manages to get to the station toilet and flushes the stones away. Erdogan, a young Turkish sewage maintenance worker, finds the diamonds in the pipes under the station. To him they mean wealth and the small hotel he always wanted to buy near his family village. To his older Swiss girlfriend Erika, employed at a supermarket checkout counter, the stones signify the end of their life together. She knows that Erdogan has a wife and children in Turkey. For the courier, finding the stones is a matter of life and death. His employers are on their way to "tidy things up". For Hunkeler the stones are the only way to get to the people behind the drug trade. They turn out to include not only the bottom-feeding drug gangs but bankers and politicians very high up the Basel food chain.
Genre:
Mystery fiction.
German fiction -- Translations into English.
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2
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