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Zusatztext 'Wonderful' Guardian. Informationen zum Autor Marek Krajewski is a lecturer in Classical Studies in the University of Wroclaw. His Eberhard Mock quartet of novels enjoyed massive success in Germany and Poland and is now being translated into the major European languages. Klappentext Breslau 1933: the mutilated bodies of a young woman and her ladies" maid are found on a train - scorpions writhe in their slashed stomach. Inspector Eberhard Mock is called in to deal with the case! and is assigned an assistant! Herbert Anwaldt! an orphan. The investigation leads them deep into the city's underbelly. As Mock and Anwaldt unravel a mystery of ritual killing that dates back to the time of the Crusades! the elderly Mock and the young! fatherless Anwaldt become close. But the dark! occult aspect of this macabre case might prove too much for Anwaldt's sanity. Zusammenfassung Breslau was a German city on the border of Czechoslovakia. It is now! since World War II! Wroclaw! in Poland. Marek Krajewski has written a quartet of novels which unfold the history of this exceptional city! standing on the faultline and crossroads of 20th-century Europe.
