Self's murder
by Bernhard Schlink
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After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to delve into the institution's history, apparently in the name of a book to commemorate the bank's foundation. But his seemingly anodyne brief - to discover the identity of a sleeping partner from several decades before - throws up far more questions than answers.
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Fiction, Private investigators, Murder, Private investigators in fiction, Money laundering investigation in fiction, Money laundering investigation, Murder in fiction, Investigation, Mystery, Gerhard Self (Fictitious character), Banks and banking, Extortion investigation, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, fiction, Self, gerhard (fictitious character), fiction, Germany, fictionPlaces
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La fin de Selb: une enquête du privé Gerhard Selb
2009, Gallimard
in French
2070379647 9782070379644
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Self's Murder (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
August 11, 2009, Vintage
Paperback
0375709096 9780375709098
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Self's murder
2009, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0297848666 9780297848660
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Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best--investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but to do so he needs Self to track down a mysterious silent partner. Self takes the job, but is soon accosted by a man who frantically hands him a suitcase full of cash and speeds off in a car, only to crash into a tree, dying instantly. Perplexed, and convinced there is more to the case than he is being told, Self follows the money. Soon he finds himself traveling to eastern Germany, where he encounters some of the most unsavory villains he has met yet.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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