March Violets
About this book
The brutality and corruption of Nazi Germany serve as the backdrop for this impressive debut mystery novel. Scottish-born Kerr re-creates the period accurately and with verve; the novel reeks of the sordid decade that saw Hitler's rise to power. Bernhard Gunther is a hard-boiled Berlin detective who specializes in tracking down missing persons--mostly Jews. He is summoned by a wealthy industrialist to find the murderer of his daughter and son-in-law, killed during the robbery of a priceless diamond necklace. Gunther quickly is catapulted into a major political scandal involving Hitler's two main henchmen, Goering and Himmler. The search for clues takes Gunther to morgues overflowing with Nazi victims; raucous nightclubs; the Olympic games where Jesse Owens tramples the theory of Aryan racial superiority; the boudoir of a famous actress; and finally to the Dachau concentration camp. Fights with Gestapo agents, shoot-outs with adulterers, run-ins with a variety of criminals, and dead bodies in unexpected places keep readers guessing to the very end. Narrator Gunther is a spirited guide through the chaos of 1930s Berlin and, more important, a detective cast in the classic mold. -- Publishers Weekly.
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 265 readers · 245 pages · ≈ 4 h 32 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read March Violets?
About ≈ 4 h 32 m — 245 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is March Violets?
245 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is March Violets?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is March Violets in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does March Violets take place?
It is set in Germany, Berlin, Berlin (Germany).
Who wrote March Violets?
Philip Kerr (1956–2018).