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"En 1989, el escritor escocés Philip Kerr publicó su primera novela, Violetas de marzo, en la que también debutó su peculiar detective, Bernie Gunther, un ex agente de la Kripo -la temida policía criminal del III Reich- especializado en buscar a personas desaparecidas. En esta primera entrega, la acción se sitúa en el Berlín de 1936, cuando la ciudad se preparaba para acoger los Juegos Olímpicos. En 1990 apareció Pálido criminal, en la que Gunther se ve obligado a reincorporarse a la Kipro para investigar los asesinatos de varias adolescentes alemanas ocurridos en 1938. Por último, un año más tarde, vio la luz la tercera parte de esta trilogía, Réquiem alemán. Ambientada en 1947, tras la derrota de la Alemania nazi, Gunther se ve envuelto en la intrincada trama de
1062 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1993
Back in the bedroom, she was still standing there, waiting for me to come and help myself. Impatient of her, I snatched her knickers down, pulling her onto the bed, where I prised her sleek, tanned thighs apart like an excited scholar opening a priceless book. For quite a while I pored over the text, turning the pages with my fingers and feasting my eyes on what I had never dreamed of possessing (pp. 68-9).
The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she’d evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she’d applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth. Her breasts were like the rear ends of a pair of dray horses at the end of along hard day. Maybe she still had a few clients, but I thought it was a better bet that I’d see a Jew at the front of a Nuremberg pork-butcher’s queue (p. 97).