Title: Shadow and light
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: 2009
Description: When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany.
Subjects: Police, Crimes against, Fiction, Motion picture producers and directors, Motion picture industry, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Crime, fiction, Berlin (germany), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Motion picture industry, fiction
Places: Germany, Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
Time periods: 1918-1945
LC classification: PS3568.A215 S53 2009