The second rider
By: Alex Beer ; translated from the German by Tim Mohr
Contributors: Mohr, Tim, translator
Series: Europa international mysteries and crime; World noir; Europa international mysteries and crime; World noir
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781609454722
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Murder; Police; Investigation; Veterans; Smugglers; Fiction
Other titles: 2nd rider
Work titles: Zweite Reiter
Description: For three months, Inspector August Emmerich has been on the trail of Veit Kolja, the head of a large-scale black market smuggling operation that supplies people with basic needs that remain scarce in a city still devastated by World War I. Emmerich dreams of a reassignment to the elite division that handles homicides and hopes to showcase his deductive skills after his inexperienced new assistant stumbles across a corpse in the woods. The coroner and Emmerich's boss, District Inspector Leopold Sander, are eager to label the death a suicide, even after a second body turns up. Emmerich resists Sander's directives to devote himself to the smuggling ring, even as he grapples with debilitating pain from a war wound as well as a devastating development in his personal life.
Notes: Original title: Der zweite Reiter. Ein fall für August Emmerich -- Title page verso.