Philip Kerr
21) March violets
Author
Series
Bernhard Gunther mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Private investigator Bernie Gunther is commissioned by industrialists Hermann Six to investigate the murder of his daughter and son-in-law around the time of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Author
Series
Bernhard Gunther mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Description
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.
25) A German requiem
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the war is over and Gunther's Vienna, trying to clear an old friend of the murder of American officer. Amid decaying imperial splendor he traces concentric circles of depravity that lead him to a former head of the Gestapo, Gripping, frightening,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages "Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece.
Author
Series
Bernie Gunther novel volume 1-3
Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
"Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison."--Page 4 of cover.