March violets

by Kerr, Philip

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Title Statements

Full title :March violets / Philip Kerr.

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. Bernard 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.
Edition:First G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:245 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0142004146, 9780142004142
oclc:on1037242138
Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Subjects

Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction Détectives -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -… Fiction Germany -- Berlin Gunther, Bernard, (Fictitious character) Historical fiction Mystery fiction Private investigators Private investigators -- Fiction. -- Ge…