The One from the Other - Hardcover

Kerr, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399152997 ISBN 13: 9780399152993

Publisher: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 2006

Synopsis

A four-part anthology of Bernie Gunther mysteries finds a former police officer struggling with his notions of justice in 1930s Germany, in a collection that is complemented by a fourth work, The One from the Other, in which Gunther finds unexpected danger while trying to confirm the death of a war criminal.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Kerr is the author of nine widely acclaimed Bernie Gunter novels, most recently The Man Without Breath. Field Gray, the seventh in the series, was a finalist for the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel. Kerr has also been a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Hardcover Fiction and he won the British Crime Writers Associations Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction. Under the name P. B. Kerr, he is the author of the much-loved young adult series Children of the Lamp. He lives in London.

From Booklist:

After a 15-year hiatus during which he's taken readers from the Himalayan snows to Enlightenment England, Kerr returns to the war-torn Germany of his Berlin Noir trilogy with a fourth case for sardonic detective Bernhard Gunther. It is 1949, and fed up with trying to run a hotel next door to Dachau, Gunther hangs out his shingle and in walks a tall blond with marriage on her mind and a missing husband on her conscience. Gunther sets out to track down the renowned sadist, one of many SS spiders able to slip through the Allies' dragnet and find refuge in the Americas. Of course, nothing is quite as it seems, and our knight's detached weltschmerz gets a fresh coat of tarnish. As with his earlier Gunther books, Kerr follows Raymond Chandler's playbook closely, adapting his trademark metaphors with all the subtlety of a goose-step and the restraint of Hermann Goring at a knackwurst-eating contest, to say nothing of the relish. Still, the knockabout action should please most fans of classic hard-boiled mystery and historical espionage. David Wright
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About this edition

• Publisher: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0399152997
• ISBN 13: 9780399152993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384