Smithy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Short summary

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Smithy works for gangsters, destroying unwanted corpses. He gets an assignment to get rid of the body of a politician’s wife, who was killed by her husband. Smithy refuses the money and is killed.

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Smithy makes his money by helping gangsters dispose of corpses along with the doctor Leibnitz. The business brings in a good income.

One day he meets a beautiful and strange woman in an abandoned building where bodies are being destroyed. She offers Smithy to make love to her. The man accepts her offer. When it is over, Smithy sends her home.

In the morning, he is summoned by police chief Nick. Smithy arrives for a meeting at a luxury hotel. Nick introduces him to a famous politician who strangled his wife. She left and had sex with the first men she could find.

The woman’s body must be destroyed, for which the politician will pay big money. In the murdered woman, Smithy recognizes the beautiful woman with whom he had sex at night.

Smithy refuses the money. Leibniz destroys the corpse. Nick sends gangsters to Smithy and he is killed.