Search This Blog

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

The Lady from Zagreb - Philip Kerr







This is a story about a police commissioner who has to solve a murder in the time of the Second World War. In this time there is the question: Is it a crime or not if done against Jews or in a concentration camp, etc. A different version of the common Who Done It.

In 1942, there are worse places to be than Zurich and detective Bernie Gunther has seen his fair share of them. So when a superior asks him to track down a glamorous German actress believed to be hiding in Zurich, he takes the job. The actress, it emerges, is the daughter of a fanatical Croatian fascist, the sadistic commandant of a notorious concentration camp and Bernie finds himself involved in something much more sinister.

No comments: