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Book Review of Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem

Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
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Ex-policemen, Bernie Gunther, thought he's seen everything on the steets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of the Nazi subculture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily white by comparison...
....taken from the back cover of the book