House of Ghosts – Royal Police Detective Gustav Heller (vol. II)
Deadly seances, a secret brothel and a woman’s terrible revenge
During the hot August of 1881, Royal Police Detective Gustav Heller and his assistant Schrumm are called to the home of Adele Blumfeld to investigate the sudden death of a participant in a séance. Unlike Schrumm, Heller doesn’t believe in ghosts or the supernatural powers of the eccentric hostess. Yet the macabre old house and above all Hermina, the mute and badly disfigured maid, seem to be hiding a secret. And what’s this ‘Red Dungeon’ everybody keeps talking about? When more mysterious deaths occur, Heller takes part in a séance himself – and almost falls into a deadly trap …
- Old-school detective-work meets the beginning of modern criminology
- »Goldammer is one of the most successful crime-writers in the German language.« Dresdner Morgenpost
- For readers of Volker Kutscher and Alex Beer and fans of historical crime
Frank Goldammer was born in Dresden in 1975. A painter and varnisher by trade, he began writing in his early twenties, self-publishing his first novels. For dtv he has written several successful historical crime thrillers set in Dresden and its surroundings.
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