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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241962350

RRP: £16.99

PAGES: 880

PUBLICATION DATE:
June 7, 2012

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

Philip Kerr

Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930’s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi sub-culture. 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…

Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh, and now divides his time between London and Cornwall. A former advertising copywriter, his first novel was published in 1989. He is the author of more than twenty books, including seven Bernie Gunther novels. In 2009 he won the British Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award for the Bernie Gunther series.

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