The Chinaman

Bitter Lemon Press

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When, in later years, Sergeant Studer told the story of the Chinaman he also called it the story of the three places as the case unfolded in a country inn, in a poorhouse and in a horticultural college, all in Pfründisberg, a Swiss village. Three places but also two murders. Anna Hungerlott, supposedly dead of a gastric influenza, left behind handkerchiefs with traces of arsenic. And one foggy November morning the enigmatic James Farny, nicknamed the Chinaman by Studer, was found lying on Anna’s grave. Murdered, a single pistol shot to the heart that did not hole his clothing. Did the fact tha

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