The Pale Criminal

Name: The Pale Criminal
Author: Philip Kerr

by Philip Kerr

Detective Gunther probes serial killings in 1930s Berlin as Nazi power consolidates

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Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr was a Scottish crime writer whose Bernie Gunther series, set in Nazi Germany and featuring a cynical Berlin detective, is one of the most ambitious and morally serious in crime fiction history. The Berlin Noir trilogy was immediately recognized as a major work when it appeared in 1993. His painstaking research and moral intelligence gave the series a unique weight.

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