Üble Sache, Maloney!

His best friend is whisky, he prefers to sleep on the floor under the desk in his shabby office. The oddball private detective has been thrilling countless crime fiction fans for over thirty years, and not only in Switzerland. In Germany, too, Philip Maloney has long been a cult figure, and his hair-raising cases are addictive. The cheeky sleuth with a dubious character and constant money worries always has a cheeky quip on his lips and skilfully shimmies from case to case and from corpse to corpse. Only the women sometimes hinder his determination - and the investigation. And there is another disturbing factor: Hugentobler, a detective, who has many flaws, which Maloney puts in a nutshell: "Dumber than a potholder.