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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Fallada’s Portrait of a Police Detective in Nazi Germany
Fallada’s 1946 novel, Jeder stirbt für sich allein recently acquired best-seller status in the English-speaking world through the translation of Michael Hofmann in the new Melville House edition, Every Man Dies Alone. It was based right after the war on … Continue reading
Posted in detective fiction
Tagged Berlin, German Historical Museum, Hans Fallada, Nazi Germany, police state
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Detecting Crime in a Police State: Fact and Fiction, Quotes
Reading William Ryan’s The Holy Thief and getting to know Captain Alexei Dmitriyevich Korolev of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Division set me to thinking about the role of a police detective in a totalitarian state, often called a “police state.” … Continue reading
Posted in detective fiction, quotations
Tagged Hans Fallada, History Museum Berlin, police in Nazi state, police state, William Ryan
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Interview with Frank Tallis
Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist and an expert in obsessional states. He is the author of “A Death in Vienna,” “Vienna Blood,” “Fatal Lies” and “Vienna Secrets,” as well as seven non-fiction books on psychology and two previous novels, … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, psychoanalytic detective novels, Vienna mysteries
Tagged 1900's, Frank Tallis, Freud
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Review of Frank Tallis’s “Vienna Twilight”
Viennese mysteries are close to my heart, and Tallis is surely the master of Viennese mystery. He writes historical, psychological thrillers—nothing cozy about him, despite the number of cakes that are consumed in the course of his novels. They are … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, murder mystery, psychological thriller, Vienna mysteries
Tagged Frank Tallis, Freud, Jeff Lindsay, Vienna
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