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Original Title:	Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
ISBN:	0140231706 (ISBN13: 9780140231700)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Bernie Gunther #1-3
Setting:	Berlin,1936(Germany) Vienna(Austria)

Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem (Bernie Gunther #1-3) Paperback | Pages: 834 pages

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Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -- richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines. (For a review of Kerr's latest novel, The Grid, see our Thrillers section.)

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Title	:	Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem (Bernie Gunther #1-3)
Author	:	Philip Kerr
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 834 pages
Published	:	1993 by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime. Cultural. Germany. Noir

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Theres a lot I liked in these three books, but I wanted to love them and didnt quite. A little more violent than my personal preference and I was definitely left a little ambivalent by the portrayals of Heydrich and some other notorious Nazis. But Kerrs recreation of that era is terrific and the stories, at their core, are compelling and entertaining.

5/23/17: Finished the first book of the trilogy, March Violets. I quite enjoyed this first book in the Bernie Gunther series and I will be looking forward to the other two in this trilogy. I also have a few of the other books in the series that I will be reading. March Violets takes place in Berlin in 1936, the year the Olympics were held there. The term March Violet refers to a German who joins the Nazi party late in the game to gain favor from the party and take advantage of being a Nazi.

I've read several books this year that are set in the same time period as this one and that deal with Hitler's rise to power. In Kerr's novel, Bernie Gunther, a private investigator and former police detective finds himself entangled with the Kripo, the Gestapo and just ordinary thugs as he tries to solve a double homicide and burglary. Kerr does a great job with sense of time and place in this character-driven and atmospheric mystery.

This omnibus volume contains the first three Bernie Gunther novels by Philip Kerr. Reviews will be submitted separately for March Violets, The Pale Criminal, and A German Requiem. The short version: read this series. The setting is ideally suited for the darkest roman noir. Bernie Gunther, who left the Kriminal Polizei because of politics taking precedent over justice, is the tough, wise-cracking P.I> who thumbs his nose at Hitler and his henchmen. However, not even Gunther can avoid being

Two very good novels and one great one make up this trilogy, following ex-cop Bernie Gunther as he attempts to keep his nose clean through the rise, fall and decimation of Nazi Germany. The hardboiled noir influence is strong here (mostly in the first volume), but rarely falls into cliché or gratuitous pandering. Overall, a fantastic look at a dark era in recent history, when Nazis, Stalinists, secret police, communists, the queer underground, renegade psychologists, pre-Christian Germanic

Couldnt finish.Let me explain: Im not a devoted fan of the mystery genre though Im thankful to GoodReads for introducing me to some worthy authors in that field that I would otherwise never have read. In the normal course of affairs, I probably would not have picked this book up even though the premise a detective working in Nazi and post-war Germany was promising. However, I work with a woman who likes this sort of thing and I keep my eye open for books to recommend or get for Xmas gifts.In

Three very fine Philip Kerr mysteries in one volume. I enjoyed these, although I'd have to say some of thelater books in the series are better. Kerr was just sharpening his nib on these three. I still have more BernieGunther stories to go. I consider myself lucky :)