- Fiction, Private investigators, History, Bernhard Gunther (Fictitious character)
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.
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- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Philip Kerr
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Viking, Rowohlt, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780142004159
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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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