Name: Self's Murder (Vintage Crime
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Author: Bernhard Schlink
ISBN: 9780375709098

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernhard Schlink

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

262

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.46

ISBN

0375709096

ISBN13

9780375709098

Synopsis "Self's Murder (Vintage Crime "

Gerhard Self, the dour, seventy-something sleuth, is back in a new chapter in the wonderful series of mysteries by the bestselling author of The Reader.When Gerhard Self happens upon one of the most intriguing cases of his career, he can't resist. From the start, the job is an unusual one: Herr Welker, partial owner of the German bank Weller and Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but he has one problema silent partner, whose name does not appear anywhere in the bank's records. Welker wants Self to track this silent partner down. Shortly after he takes the job, Self is accosted by a man who frantically hands him a suitcase full of money and speeds off in a car, only to crash into a tree, dying instantly. Perplexed, but more determined than ever, Self follows the money. Soon he finds himself traveling to eastern Germanyshortly after the fall of communismbattling Nazi youth, and closing in on a money laundering ring with connections to the Russian mafia.

Bernhard Schlink

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Bernhard Schlink is a German writer and jurist. In 1998, he was appointed judge at the constitutional court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and has been a professor of legal history at Humboldt University, Berlin, since January 2006.

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