The
silent death
Kutscher, Volker
1962-
creator
author.
Sellar, Niall
1984-
translator.
text
Detective and mystery stories.
nyu
2018
2017
First Picador paperback edition.
monographic
eng
438 pages ; 21 cm.
March 1930: The film business is in a process of change. Talking films are taking over the silver screen and many a producer, cinema owner, and silent movie star is falling by the wayside. Celebrated actress Betty Winter is hit by a spotlight while filming a talkie. At first it looks like an accident, but Superintendent Gereon Rath finds clues that point to murder. While his colleagues suspect the absconded lighting technician, Rath's investigations take him in a completely different direction, and he is soon left on his own. Steering clear of his superior who wants him off the case, Rath's life gets more complicated when his father asks him to help Cologne mayor Konrad Adenauer with a case of blackmail, and ex-girlfriend Charly tries to renew their relationship; all while tensions between Nazis and Communists escalate to violence.
Volker Kutscher ; translated from the German by Niall Sellar.
Translated from the German.
Rath, Gereon (Fictitious character)
Fiction
Murder
Investigation
Fiction
Police
Germany
History
Fiction
Berlin (Germany)
Fiction
Germany
History
1918-1933
Fiction
Gereon Rath ; book 2
Kutscher, Volker
1962-
author.
9781250187017
125018701X
9781760527938
2018022713
DLC
180516
20181127141339.0
on1018050654
eng