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Self's Murder (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.
Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best—investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately ...more
Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best—investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately ...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
August 11th 2009
by Vintage
(first published 2001)
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SCHLINK, Bernhard: „Selbs Mord“, Zürich 2003
Der dritte Teil einer Trilogie mit Selb dem Privatdetektiven. Diesmal arbeitet er für einen Privatbanker, der von einem Ziehbruder erpresst wurde. Dieser Sohn einer russischen Mutter machte Geldwäscherei mit der Bank und erpresste den Besitzer. Durch einen Zufall kam der Privatdetektiv Selb in diesen Fall, indem er mit einer Nebensache beauftragt wurde, um dann in den wahren Fall einzusteigen. Seine Freunde – ein pensionierter Polizist und ein Sp...more
Der dritte Teil einer Trilogie mit Selb dem Privatdetektiven. Diesmal arbeitet er für einen Privatbanker, der von einem Ziehbruder erpresst wurde. Dieser Sohn einer russischen Mutter machte Geldwäscherei mit der Bank und erpresste den Besitzer. Durch einen Zufall kam der Privatdetektiv Selb in diesen Fall, indem er mit einer Nebensache beauftragt wurde, um dann in den wahren Fall einzusteigen. Seine Freunde – ein pensionierter Polizist und ein Sp...more
Much like in Self's Punishment Self is again hired by someone with either a secret or an ulterior motive. This time instead of an acquaintance hiring him it's a serendipitous meeting in the snow which leads to an archival job that masks another dicovery into the former Communist East Germany and ultimately leads back to the Nazi past. Schlink does a superb job of capturing a man pondering his life, wondering if he has made a difference, done anything, knowing which battles to fight, and trying t...more
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Bernhard Schlink is the author of a series of award-winning crime novels starring Gerhard Self, a senior citizen private detective with a fondness for sweet cigarettes and liqueurs.
In this latest adventure, Self is lured out of retirement by Welker, the mysterious head of a longstanding private bank, who has a seemingly simple request for the aging investigator: find out the identity of a former secret partner in the family business. But as Self investigates, and comes face to face...more
In this latest adventure, Self is lured out of retirement by Welker, the mysterious head of a longstanding private bank, who has a seemingly simple request for the aging investigator: find out the identity of a former secret partner in the family business. But as Self investigates, and comes face to face...more
Haven't read any German (in translation!) fiction before but I picked this up at the library and am getting intrigued! 70 year old PI investigating in Germany ...
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A quien le guste la literatura policiaca interesante.
El gran valor de esta novela es su protagonista, Selb, un antiguo juez de la Alemania nazi que trabaja como detective. Evidentemente su pasado está muy presente en la novela, y la forma en que se retrata a toda esa generación de alemanes que vivieron bajo Hitler es en esta novela clave para entender al personaje y la historia que nos cuenta.
Además la trama detectivesca está bien entrelazada, tiene dosis de humor y de misterio bien colocadas en la historia principal y consigue no ser ...more
Además la trama detectivesca está bien entrelazada, tiene dosis de humor y de misterio bien colocadas en la historia principal y consigue no ser ...more
Este es mi primer libro sobre el ex-fiscal y ahora detective Selb, así como también de este notable autor alemán, que se granjeó buena crítica con 'El lector'.
Se suele colocar a Schlink entre los autores del resurgimiento de la literatura de detectives, de lo neo-policiaco y es más que merecida esta etiqueta al lado de autores como Tim Krabbe o Giorgio Todde.
Se suele colocar a Schlink entre los autores del resurgimiento de la literatura de detectives, de lo neo-policiaco y es más que merecida esta etiqueta al lado de autores como Tim Krabbe o Giorgio Todde.
Schlink is the author of "THe Reader". This mystery is not nearly as compelling. The translation from German is awkward. The punctuation freaks me out.
... that i actually CAN like criminal novels and that lawyers can be exeptional good authors (when it comes to fiction)!!!
Eines der Besten.
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Bernhard Schlink is a German jurist and writer. He became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and has been a professor of public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany since January 2006.
His career as a writer began with several detective novels with a main character named Selb--a play on the German w...more
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