Friday Finds: “The Pledge”

Another in our growing line of vintage book covers we love. The Pledge, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Signet, 1960). Illustration by Sanford Kossin. Originally published in 1958, The Pledge--or using its German title, Das Versprechen--is a “spellbinding” crime-fiction novella (only 176 pages long in one easily available paperback edition) by Swiss author and dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-