![]() ![]() ![]() It is anovel in the form of short stories, where thedetective fights against mysterious forces.“Hargla is rather productive: future Estonianprose custodians will often have to deal withHargla’s books,” summarised Tarmo Teder inhis article.Indeed, in the course of the subsequent10 years, Hargla published about a dozenworks. ![]() His nameappearing in this article generally means thata writer has made it.“This thriller, with an elaborate plot, iswritten fluently and within the boundaries ofgood taste,” wrote Teder, and he even referredto another work by the author at the beginningof his literary career, Pan Grpowski üheksa juhtumit(Nine Cases of Pan Grpowski). Entering Estonianliterature in the late 1990s withfantasy stories, followed shortly bynovels in the same genre, IndrekHargla quickly attracted attentionamong wider audiences and not justamong fantasy and sci-fi fans.4Hargla’s debut novel Baiita needus (TheCurse of Baiita) in 2001 received a specialsci-fi award in a novel competition and wasmentioned by the writer and critic TarmoTeder in the annual prose overview in themagazine Looming in 2002. ![]() Indrekmaster of magic and murdersb y P e e t e r H e l m eIndrek Hargla, 42 in the comingsummer and the author of sci-fi,fantasy and crime novels, can nowcertainly be called a phenomenon inEstonian literature. ![]()
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