IN MATTO'S REALM by Friedrich Glauser - FIRST EDITION TRADE PAPER BOOK

Bitter Lemon Press LON: 1995 First trade paper edition, first printing (thus), mint, new/unread in a flawless pictorial wrappers. 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.

Addicted to morphine, Glauser spent much of his life in psychiatric wards and prison. He began writing mystery novels while an asylum inmate in 1935.