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When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
Shadow and Light: Summary and book reviews of Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb. 2009
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And Nikolai Hoffner, a cop weighed down by bad conscience, is the most engaging of heroes.
In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011
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When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
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That and Hoffner himself, a noir hero in every way, from his unquenchable thirst for potables to the inevitability with which he finds himself caught in the riptide of history.
Shadow and Light: Summary and book reviews of Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb. 2009
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With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlins sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitlers Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany.
Shadow and Light: Summary and book reviews of Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb. 2009
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When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
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When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
The best recent books: Intellectual Mysteries/Thrillers 2009
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When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
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When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
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When we last met Hoffner, it was 1919, and he had taken on the disappearance and death of Rosa Luxembourg in Rosa, a novel the critic John Leonard hailed as a ghostly noir that could have been conspired at by Raymond Chandler and André Malraux.
Shadow and Light: Summary and book reviews of Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb. 2009
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