TY - BOOK AU - Kerr,Philip TI - Prussian blue: a Bernie Gunther novel T2 - A Bernie Gunther novel SN - 9780399177057 PY - 2017///] CY - New York PB - Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons KW - Gunther, Bernhard KW - Private investigators KW - Fiction KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "A Marian Wood Book." N2 - Bernie Gunther, once Commissar of the Third Reich, is on the run from Erich Mielke, the deputy head of Stasi, and reminisces about a case he investigated seventeen years earlier in which someone shot an engineer on the terrace of Hitler's private residence; The French Riviera, 1956. Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he's calling in a debt. Mielke wants Bernie go to London with the vial of Thallium, to poison a female agent they both have had dealings with. Friedrich Korsch, an old Kripo comrade now working for Stasi, is there to make sure Bernie gets the job done. As Bernie bolts for the German border, he recalls the summer of 1939, when the body of a low-level bureaucrat was found at Hitler's mountaintop retreat in Obersalzberg. Bernie and Korsch have one week to solve the murder ER -