- Private investigators, International relations, Bernhard Gunther (Fictitious character), Fiction
Le point de vue de l'éditeur On se souvient de Bernie Gunther, l'ex-commissaire de police devenu détective privé, qui, à la fin de La Trilogie berlinoise, assistait à la chute du IIIe Reich, conscient de la corruption qui, à Berlin comme à Vienne, minait le régime.
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Classical in form, grave, bleak and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Philip Kerr
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 488
- Publisher
- Putnam Adult, ISIS Large Print, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781415946329
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Philip Kerr is a British author. After gaining a master's degree in law and philosophy, Kerr worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi and Saatchi before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. A writer of both adult fiction and non-fiction, he is known for the Bernie Gunther series of historical thrillers set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War. He has also written children's books under the name P.B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series. Kerr has written for The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard and the New Statesman. He is married to fellow novelist Jane Thynne. Source: wikipedia
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