FWIW, your descriptions are making me seriously eye the copy of Wilhelm Raabe: Novels on Abebooks.
(There are also two copies of Stopfkuchen itself, if I decide I want to really stretch my minimal German. Or pay through the nose, since one of them's an 1891 edition and priced accordingly.)
Also also, 1891 is definitely not too early to be a deconstruction of the mystery genre. The first flourishing of the English detective novel, with The Moonstone and so on, was in the 1860s.
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Date: 2018-09-05 10:07 am (UTC)From:(There are also two copies of Stopfkuchen itself, if I decide I want to really stretch my minimal German. Or pay through the nose, since one of them's an 1891 edition and priced accordingly.)
They're also, since I'm currently working my way through le Carré's George Smiley novels, reminding me just a bit of George and Anne.
Also also, 1891 is definitely not too early to be a deconstruction of the mystery genre. The first flourishing of the English detective novel, with The Moonstone and so on, was in the 1860s.