Rabb, Jonathan.

Shadow and Light.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by the author. [Berlin Trilogy (part two)]

A crime novel set in Berlin of 1927, the hey day of the Wiemar Republic. A studio executive from Ufa is found dead in his bathtub setting in motion an investigation that takes in Berlin’s thriving cinema scene, Sex and drugs trade, Hitler’s Brownshirts and monorchists looking to rearm a post-Versailles Germany.

Jonathan Rabb (born April 28, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, actor and writer. The Berlin Trilogy is a set of historical mysteries: Rosa (2005), a detective story set in 1918 in war-ravaged Berlin, which introduces the characters of Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his assistant Hans Fichte of the Kriminalpolizei. Shadow and Light (2009) takes place in 1927, when an executive at the newly-famous Ufa film studios is found dead. The Second Son (2011) is set later, before the 1936 Olympics, and continues the story Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner’s life as his family’s fortunes come up against the Nazi regime.(Wikipedia)

• Keywords: 20th Century · 20th Century History · 21st Century Literature · Berlin · Brownshirts · Crime Novels · Fiction · Germany · SA · Weimar Republic
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780374261948
• Inventory Number: 60266AB

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