The Dance Hall Murder
Fiction, Thriller / Crime
A dead body in Clärchen’s Ballroom
Berlin, Summer 1928. A dresser is found murdered in Bühler’s ballroom, a dance establishment on the Auguststraße, which is also known as Clärchen’s dance hall. Clärchen, the owner, is stunned. Was the murder specifically intended to harm her establishment?
Inspector Leo Wechsler’s case is further complicated by an unknown woman present at the crime scene, a series of unsolved sexual crimes in Frankfurt which show some similarities to the current case, and the sympathies of the victim’s Communist ex-lover. Wechsler and his colleagues pursue their investigation in a world shaped by the Charleston, champagne, and wild pleasure.
- The seventh volume in the successful series about Inspector Leo Wechsler
- An atmospheric historical Berlin mystery: ideal reading material for fans of Babylon Berlin
- Susanne Goga’s total sales with dtv: 160,000 copies
Susanne Goga was born in 1967. She studied literary translation in Düsseldorf and has been translating as a freelance from English and French since 1995.
A dead body in Clärchen’s Ballroom
Berlin, Summer 1928. A dresser is found murdered in Bühler’s ballroom, a dance establishment on the Auguststraße, which is also known as Clärchen’s dance hall. Clärchen, the owner, is stunned. Was the murder specifically intended to harm her establishment?
Inspector Leo Wechsler’s case is further complicated by an unknown woman present at the crime scene, a series of unsolved sexual crimes in Frankfurt which show some similarities to the current case, and the sympathies of the victim’s Communist ex-lover. Wechsler and his colleagues pursue their investigation in a world shaped by the Charleston, champagne, and wild pleasure.
- The seventh volume in the successful series about Inspector Leo Wechsler
- An atmospheric historical Berlin mystery: ideal reading material for fans of Babylon Berlin
- Susanne Goga’s total sales with dtv: 160,000 copies