Jerzy Edigey

Jerzy Edigey's grave in the Tatar-Muslim cemetery in Warsaw

Jerzy Edigey (born August 12, 1912 , † August 24, 1983 in Warsaw , Poland ), actually Jerzy Korycki , was a Polish - Tatar lawyer and detective writer.

In Warsaw he first studied law and worked as a lawyer, but then actively participated in the Polish resistance during the Second World War and the German occupation of Poland . In his apartment he organized political meetings and lectures at the underground Warsaw University .

From 1961 Jerzy Edigey only worked as a writer and author. He wrote over 30 (often historical) crime and adventure stories, many of which were also translated into German and published in GDR publishers from 1971 (e.g. as a crime series in the Kompass library , in the publishers Neues Leben and Das Neue Berlin ).

Jerzy's ancestors came from Polish Lipka Tatars , which he later emphasized by choosing the pseudonym Edigey . For a long time he was more of an atheist than a Muslim, but was eventually buried in Warsaw's Tatar-Muslim cemetery .

Works (selection)

• The arrow from Elam
• The king of Babylon
• King Asarhaddon's caravan
• Murder with the key (The dead man with the key)
• Murder by alphabet
• Death is waiting outside the window
• Vacation in the preseason

Web links

• Literature by and about Jerzy Edigey in the catalog of the German National Library