Squeeze Play (oyster)

Squeeze Play is a crime novel by Paul Auster , which he wrote in 1978 under the pseudonym Paul Benjamin and which was published in the USA in 1982. It was first published in German in 1998 in Von der Hand in den Mund . In this book, Auster also tells the story of why he wrote this novel and the circumstances under which it was first published and the more commercially successful paperback publication in 1984 by Avon Books. A squeeze play is a play in baseball , which also has the variant suicide squeeze , the name of which contains the English term for suicide .

action

Someone is trying to kill former baseball star George Chapman. Chapman then hired the New York private investigator Max Klein. Chapman claims he has no enemies, which Klein doesn't believe him. But neither does it believe in the alibis or the sexual advances that Chapman's wife makes him. This seems to have enough reason to hate her husband so much that she could kill him.

Awards

• 1985: Shamus Award , nominated as best private detective novel, paperback (Shamus Award Nominee for Best Original PI Paperback)

expenditure

• unnamed publisher, New York City 1982
• Paperback edition: Avon Books, New York City 1984, ISBN 9780380676866
• Penguin Publishing Group, New York City 1990, ISBN 9780140130850
• Paperback edition Faber & Faber, London 1991, ISBN 9780140130850
• In Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure , Faber & Faber, London 1997, ISBN 9780571194810

German by Werner Schmitz : From hand to mouth. A chronicle of early failures , Rowohlt-Verlag 1998, pages 257-512, ISBN 3498000438

Web links

• Synopsis on summerofauster, blog, English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From hand to mouth. A chronicle of early failures , Rowohlt-Verlag 1998, pages 257-512
2. ↑ Pages 145 following
3. ↑ Shamus Awards at Goodreads.com
4. ↑ page 150
5. ↑ Derringerbooks.com
6. ↑ abebooks.com
7. ↑ Derringerbooks.com