This work's protagonist is alarmed to hear that a black panther has escaped, since "My Black Panther" was his pet name as a youth. Louis Perch and Jacob Chicken are punished for accepting pints of brandy as bribes to lie during a paternity suit that took place previous to this work. One character in
This work's protagonist is alarmed to hear that a black panther has escaped, since "My Black Panther" was his pet name as a youth. Louis Perch and Jacob Chicken are punished for accepting pints of brandy as bribes to lie during a paternity suit that took place previous to this work. One character in this work tells her film-star husband to drive his Porsche back to Geiselberg, after which she marries a Nobel Prize-winner. An argument in this work ends with a painter smashing a portrait of its protagonist over the head of the schoolmaster who speaks out against this work's central scheme. The protagonist is a storekeeper who grows increasingly nervous as his peers buy products on credit. This work's antagonist is a famed billionairess whose associates include her seventh through ninth husbands, her butler, two paroled gangsters, and two eunuchs, to whom she gives the names Moby, Hoby, Zoby, Boby, Roby, Toby, Koby, and Loby. For 10 points, name this work in which Claire Zachanassian bribes the town of Guellen to kill Alfred Ill, a play by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
This work's protagonist is alarmed to hear that a black panther has escaped, since "My Black Panther" was his pet name as a youth.
The Visit [or The Visit of the Old Lady; or Der Besuch der alten Dame]