Zwischen neun und neun (From Nine to Nine), published in 1918, is a German-language thriller by the Prague-born Austrian author Leo Perutz. The novel follows a student who escapes from police custody and attempts to navigate Vienna within a single day, with Perutz using an innovative circular narrative structure that multiplies and recombines possibilities in ways that anticipate later modernist experimentation.
Perutz was a master of the intelligent thriller and a writer admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Ian Fleming, and Italo Calvino — his sophisticated plotting and metaphysical undertones set him apart from ordinary crime fiction. Download this free public-domain EPUB to discover one of German literature’s great hidden pleasures.