The One from the Other is a 2006 mystery thriller novel by the British writer Philip Kerr. It is the fourth in his series featuring the German private detective and former policeman Bernie Gunther.Sandberg p.76-78 It revived the character, who had originally appeared in the "Berlin Noir" trilogy from 1989 to 1991. It takes place mostly around postwar Munich, Vienna as well as Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps where the 1936 Winter Olympics had been held.Geherin p.150-52 The novel was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2007.
Synopsis Gunther opens the novel operating a struggling hotel that belongs to his now critically-ill wife in the Bavarian market town of Dachau, by then infamous for the Dachau concentration camp of the Nazi era. Realising he is unsuited to running a hotel, he decides to sell up and move to Munich and set up as a private detective. Yet all the cases he gets offered all revolve around the imprisoned war criminals and the campaign to release them in a potential amnesty, something he feels distinctly ambiguous about because of his own past as a reluctant member of the SS.
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