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March violets / Philip Kerr.
- Title
- March violets / Philip Kerr.
- Author
- Kerr, Philip
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6061.E784 M37 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 245 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- The brutality and corruption of Nazi Germany serve as the backdrop for this impressive debut mystery novel. Scottish-born Kerr re-creates the period accurately and with verve; the novel reeks of the sordid decade that saw Hitler's rise to power. Bernhard Gunther is a hard-boiled Berlin detective who specializes in tracking down missing persons--mostly Jews. He is summoned by a wealthy industrialist to find the murderer of his daughter and son-in-law, killed during the robbery of a priceless diamond necklace. Gunther quickly is catapulted into a major political scandal involving Hitler's two main henchmen, Goering and Himmler. The search for clues takes Gunther to morgues overflowing with Nazi victims; raucous nightclubs; the Olympic games where Jesse Owens tramples the theory of Aryan racial superiority; the boudoir of a famous actress; and finally to the Dachau concentration camp. Fights with Gestapo agents, shoot-outs with adulterers, run-ins with a variety of criminals, and dead bodies in unexpected places keep readers guessing to the very end. Narrator Gunther is a spirited guide through the chaos of 1930s Berlin and, more important, a detective cast in the classic mold. -- Publishers Weekly.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0142004146
- LCCN
- ^^2004044275
- OCLC
- 54079520
- SCSB-12229692
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library