Death in Berlin
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Published: June 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312263089
Subjects: Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret) - Prose & Criticism; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - Historical; Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Mystery & Detective - General; Mystery fiction
First sentence: Miranda Brand knelt on the floor of a bedroom in the Families' Hostel at Bad Oeynhausen in the British zone of Germany, searching her suitcase for a cake of soap, and regretting that she had ever accepted her cousin Robert Melville's invitation to spend a month with him and his family in Berlin.
Description: En route to a Germany still scarred by World War II, young Miranda Brand finds herself caught up in a search for a fortune in lost diamonds and in a murder committed on the night train to Berlin.