- Bernhard Gunther (Fictitious character), Fiction, Private investigators, War criminals
Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Philip Kerr
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 407
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847243560
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