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The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr · Booklabria

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Part ofBerlin Noir trilogy2 books in the catalogue

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First published: 1990
Editions: 5 in 2 languages
Series: Berlin Noir trilogy

Synopsis

Bernhard Gunther, a private investigator in Germany in 1938, is hired by a rich widow to discover who has been blackmailing her, and by the Berlin police to track down a serial killer, and runs into bizarre psychotherapy and medicinal practices and Nazi occultism.

Subjects: History
Mystery
Romans, nouvelles
Histoire
Private investigators
Germany
Set in: Germany
Berlin
Time: 1918-1945
Characters: Bernhard Gunther

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5 in 2 languages

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English3 German2

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