Death in Wroclaw

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Tod in Breslau , Polish : Śmierć w Breslau , is a detective novel by the Polish author and Wroclaw classical philologist Marek Krajewski from 1999; it is the first volume of a crime series about the character of the Wroclaw detective Eberhard Mock .

The action takes place in May 1933. Kriminalrat Mock is preparing for an enjoyable evening in Madame de Goef's establishment when his assistant calls him: The 17-year-old Baroness Marietta von der Malten was brutal with her governess on the Berlin-Breslau train murdered. Mock, who is somewhat corrupt and averse to hard investigative work, is more than happy to be persuaded by the SS when they present an old Jewish pet dealer with epilepsy as the alleged perpetrator - the victim was put on the stomach with scorpions on the fabric wallpaper of the compartment is an encrypted message written in blood. But the case is only just getting started: the real murderer threatens the baroness's father. Mock gets into a mess: The baron, on the other hand, threatens to betray the Nazis Mocks' previous membership in a Masonic lodge if he doesn't get behind the case. But as it is, he would have to take on the SS, which absolutely wants to present a Jewish perpetrator. A struggle begins in which everyone involved tries to use as much leverage as possible. Events roll over, and Mock gets deeper and deeper into the entanglements of the dangerous Breslau underworld ...

Śmierć w Breslau was Krajewski's debut novel and found an interested readership in Poland. In 2002, when he died in Breslau, there was a translation into German by Doreen Daume . Other titles in the series around Kriminalrat Eberhard Mock are: The Calendar Page Murderer, Ghosts in Breslau, Fortress Breslau, Pest in Breslau, all translated into German by Paulina Schulz .

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