Tea Party of Three Old Women

Friedrich Charles Glauser (1896-1938) — a Swiss writer, the founder of the detective genre in German-language literature. His works have been translated into many European languages. In Switzerland, the Friedrich Glauser Prize is awarded for the best detective novel.
«Tea Party of Three Old Women» — the author's first work in the detective genre. The action unfolds in Geneva, where Glauser lived in his youth. The writer was personally familiar with many of the realities described in the novel. The plot includes everything — secret agents of great powers, political and financial machinations, Gnostic teachings, mysterious poisonings, and false suspects, drugs, and poisons. The tension remains until the end, and the criminal mystery is solved only on the last pages of the novel.
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