false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255744595m/236814.jpg 236814 4 Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -- richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in <B>March Violets</B> (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In <B>The Pale Criminal</B>, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in <B>A German Requiem,</B> the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines. (For a review of Kerr's latest novel, The Grid, see our Thrillers section.) 229374 1 1 1994 Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem total:268|5:105|4:114|3:45|2:4|1:0| 268 1124 439 55 5 1 false false Mon Jul 27 13:41:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:51:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jun 08 14:47:32 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 19:13:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false true Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 11:58:49 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 12:08:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 30 18:28:27 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 18:29:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 01 14:49:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 15:07:00 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 17:54:57 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 18:02:25 -0800 2009 Par contre, le style d'écriture est trop lé...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Dec 28 09:13:39 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 03 11:59:23 -0800 2008
I loved this book for the ingenious plot lines,...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 20:27:58 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 20:38:43 -0800 2009 Berlin Noir books--hard-boiled private detective plying his trade in pre-WWII, Nazi-controlled Berlin.
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The historical detail in these books is just fantastic and a treat for any second world war history buffs. Kerr seems to have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that he...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 31 00:36:46 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 00:41:41 -0700 2009 Th...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 13:49:08 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 13:49:53 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 13:28:03 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 00:39:01 -0700 2008 Raymond Chandler and his ilk, you'd probably enjoy these three private "i" stories set in Berlin during the mid to late 30's. Philip Kerr does an admirable job depicting the city as a dark and frequently lethal place under control of the Nazis ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 10:17:31 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 10:24:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 13 16:36:03 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 16:38:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 20 19:49:59 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 20:02:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 05 07:16:34 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 07:16:43 -0800 2008 darkest times of human history, Berlin, during the rise of the Third Reich.

These novels...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Dec 19 14:17:53 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 14:18:47 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Mar 23 11:12:26 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 11:15:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 09 08:32:46 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 08:33:51 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Jul 20 13:03:55 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 13:04:25 -0700 2009 s loved it. All 3. Worth a re=read if time allows.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=236814