Now in one volume--the first three novels in Philip Kerr's New York
Times bestselling historical mystery series starring hard-boiled
detective Bernie Gunther...
"A Chandleresque knight errant caught in insane historical surroundings.
Bernie walks down streets so mean that nobody can stay alive and remain
truly clean."--John Powers, Fresh Air (NPR)
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...
This collection includes:
MARCH VIOLETS
THE PALE CRIMINAL
A GERMAN REQUIEM