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Philip Ballantyne Kerr (22 February 1956 – 23 March 2018) was a British author, best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers. Early life [ edit ] Kerr was born in Edinburgh , Scotland, where his father was an engineer and his mother worked as a secretary. [4]
If the Dead Rise Not. If the Dead Rise Not is a crime novel by Philip Kerr, the sixth in the series starring Berlin police detective Bernhard Gunther. It was published in 2009 by Quercus of London. For it, in 2009 Kerr was awarded the world's most lucrative crime fiction prize, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing, worth €125,000.
The Second Angel. The Second Angel is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Philip Kerr. [1] The title of the book comes from a Bible quote, 'And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man' (Revelation 16:3). Historical myths about blood such as this play a big part in The Second Angel, as ...
The Pale Criminal is a historical detective novel and the second in the Berlin Noir trilogy of Bernhard Gunther novels written by Philip Kerr. Plot [ edit ] Set in 1938, two years after the events of March Violets , Bernhard (Bernie) Gunther has taken Bruno Stahlecker, another ex-police officer, as his partner.
A Philosophical Investigation is a 1992 techno-thriller by Philip Kerr. Plot summary. In a near-future, a British neuroscientist named Professor Burgess Phelan has discovered a portion of the brain, the VMN, that is typically twice the size in men as it is in women.
Blickling Estate. Blickling Hall is a Jacobean stately home situated in 5,000 acres of parkland in a loop of the River Bure, near the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England. The mansion was built on the ruins of a Tudor building for Sir Henry Hobart from 1616 and designed by Robert Lyminge.
A German Requiem is a 1991 historical detective novel and the last in the Berlin Noir trilogy of Bernhard Gunther novels written by Philip Kerr. Plot [ edit ] After spending the latter part of World War II in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp , 1947 sees Bernhard Gunther now married to a wife who is trading sex with U.S. Army officers for scarce goods.
The Gippsland massacres, many led by the Scots pastoralist Angus McMillan, saw between 300 and 1,000 Gunai (or Kurnai) people murdered. [96] [97] 1840–1860. The Eumeralla Wars between European settlers and Gunditjmara people in south west Victoria included a number of massacres resulting in over 442 Aboriginal deaths.