# The Jew´s Beech

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- Authors: [Lionel Thomas](https://www.bookquiver.com/lionel-thomas)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2024-04-15
- Genres: Crime and / or mystery fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories

## Description

Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history. A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny - ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgängers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest - as well as a famously ambiguous climax.

## Editions

### The Jew´s Beech

- Publisher: Alma
- ISBN: 978-18-4749-918-9
- Pages: 101
- Published: 2024-04-15
- Language: en_US