author: Marek Krajewski

translated by: Boris Gross

Keter Publishing House

 

 

 

Marek Krajewski (born 4 September 1966) is an award-winning Polish crime writer and linguist. He is best known for his series of six Chandleresque novels set in pre-war Wrocław (which was, at the time, Breslau) with the policeman Eberhard Mock as the protagonist. These novels have been translated into 14 languages: English, French, German, and Italian, among others.

Death in Breslau - Wrocław, in other words Breslau, the 1930s. A city inhabited by various levels of society. Within this kaleidoscope there is also room for the aristocracy – who are rich, which may be everything. A certain baron has a daughter, and she is killed. The brutalised lady is Marietta von der Malten, who has been raped; her belly has been slit open, and some arachnids have been put inside it, to be precise scorpions. The alleged guilty party has Semitic features and from time to time he cringes. The Nazi propaganda rubs its hands together. The alleged truth may however prove false. To help solve the riddle of the murder, criminal investigator Eberhard Mock is brought in, newly appointed Kriminaldirektor. The case gets more complicated when it turns out that someone unlikely to be is in fact distantly related to the Baron, and that he has been using his aristocratic advantages for certain bedroom activities. A second murder is committed, above which a certain hybrid spirit hovers, whispering: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. An enigmatic tangle? Very much so, but this is just the beginning. At the beginning, which should be carefully kept in mind, a death occurred. Death in Breslau. (From: Znak Publishers)