Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem

By Philip Kerr

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Berlin Noir collects the first three novels in Philip Kerr's series about Bernie Gunther, a cynical private detective in Nazi-era and postwar Germany. In March Violets and The Pale Criminal, set in 1936 and 1938, Gunther takes cases that lead him into the corruption of the Third Reich. A German Requiem follows him in ruined Berlin and Vienna after the war. Kerr mixes hard-boiled crime with history, showing an ordinary man trying to stay decent in terrible times.

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