The Pale Criminal - Hardcover

Kerr, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067082433X ISBN 13: 9780670824335

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1990

Synopsis

In September 1938, private investigator Bernie Gunther, formerly of the Berlin criminal police, is convinced to track a brutal serial killer stalking the streets of Berlin. But Gunther finds tht a murder hunt for a preverted killer soon escalates beyond all his predictions.

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.

Review:

"A superb tour of Berlin on the edge of an abyss and a cynical, dashing leading man. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Kerr makes his star turns - Heydrich, Himmler, et al - eerily believable." —The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 067082433X
• ISBN 13: 9780670824335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288