Death on the Elbe – Royal Police Detective Gustav Heller (vol. I)
Old-school investigation methods vs. the dawn of modern criminology
1879: Gustav Heller, Dresden Royal Police detective, is riding along the Elbe when an infernal bang shatters the silence. A steamer has exploded, and the river is strewn with bodies, injured or dead. Heller bravely pulls a seriously injured man ashore. It turns out that the case is more complicated than it had seemed, and Heller must enter into an underworld filled with sabotage, blackmail, and murder. Two shipping companies are fighting to the bitter end. Soon, Heller’s probing begins to ruffle feathers, and, when it turns out that his family is in danger, he turns to the Saxon king for help …
- The first instalment of an extraordinary new historical crime series by SPIEGEL-bestselling author Frank Goldammer: Gustav Heller, grandfather of Max Heller investigates
- Rights to Max Heller-series sold to: English World Rights, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Serbia
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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