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Original Title:	March Violets
ISBN:	0142004146 (ISBN13: 9780142004142)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Bernie Gunther #1
Characters:	Hermann Göring, Bernhard Gunther, Ilse Rudel, Hermann Six, Heinrich Himmler, Grete Six Pfarr, Paul Pfarr, Haupthändler, "Red" Dieter Helfferich, Marlene Sahm, Rienacker, Inge Lorenz, Bruno Stahlecker, Hannah "Eva" Roedl
Setting:	Berlin,1936(Germany)

March Violets (Bernie Gunther #1) Paperback | Pages: 245 pages

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Title	:	March Violets (Bernie Gunther #1)
Author	:	Philip Kerr
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 245 pages
Published	:	July 27th 2004 by G.P. Putnam's Sons (first published March 23rd 1989)
Categories	:	Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Cultural. Germany. Noir

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Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. The first book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, March Violets introduces readers to Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930's Berlin; until he turned freelance and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture.

Bernhard Gunther, 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.

Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly detailed, March Violets is noir writing at its blackest and best.

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The library finaly did come through and found me the copies of the first three novels of Philip Kerr concerning Bernie Gunther. Which made me a very happy person.Marching violets refers to the folks who jumped on the Nazi bandwagon once it got rolling in 1933, they were not the original followers of Mr Hitler and his scary men but decided that they could get their own ambitions filled whatever they were.It is 1936 and Bernie Gunther is no longer a policeman but a private eye and when this book

The library finaly did come through and found me the copies of the first three novels of Philip Kerr concerning Bernie Gunther. Which made me a very happy person.Marching violets refers to the folks who jumped on the Nazi bandwagon once it got rolling in 1933, they were not the original followers of Mr Hitler and his scary men but decided that they could get their own ambitions filled whatever they were.It is 1936 and Bernie Gunther is no longer a policeman but a private eye and when this book

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Bernie Gunther investigates the murder of the daughter of one of Germans wealthiest industrialists while the 1936 Summer Olympics play out in Berlin. Gunther is an ex-policeman that thought he had seen everything, but becoming a freelance Private Investigator has found him being sucked into the horrible excesses of Nazi subculture.This is classic hard-boiled/noir fiction; it has the hard-hitting detective, a fast-paced plot and the everyday violence you come to expect. But this time that

This is the first of Kerr's series about ex-cop-turned-PI Bernie Gunther, here trying to solve a case (he's hired by a plutocrat to track down an expensive item of jewellery missing from the safe of the plutocrat's murdered daughter and son-in-law) while coping with the everyday horrors and bureaucratic complications of Nazism in pre-WWII Berlin. A problem the novel has is that this latter aspect is often far more interesting, and far more effectively portrayed, than the noirish plot itself; I

This is a solid start to what promises to be an engaging series! Bernie is quite the character, a caricature of his time in the setting of 1936 Berlin - sexist, blunt, definitely not PC. The story was good, but not great, with a few plot holes, but I didn't mind. I am a character-driven reader, and Bernie Gunther, with all his quirks delivered on that front. I also felt Kerr did a wonderful job of creating an almost palpable atmosphere of tension. I would definitely read another book in this

Having recently read the latest Bernie Gunther novel, Greeks Bearing Gifts, I was saddened to read of the death of Philip Kerr. This made me go back to the very first Gunther novel, March Violets, the beginning of the Berlin Noir trilogy, which I read in 1989 and have re-visited a few times since. This time I listened to the audio version. Oddly, at first, Bernie has an American accent, but then, I suppose he is modelled on an old fashioned, gumshoe the original, world weary, wise cracking,