The minotaur's head

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Label

The minotaur's head

Statement of responsibility

Marek Krajewski ; translated by Danusia Stok

Creator

• Krajewski, Marek

Contributor

• Stok, Danusia

Author

• Krajewski, Marek

Translator

• Stok, Danusia

Subject

• Poland -- Fiction
• Mock, Eberhard, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Police -- Poland | Wrocław -- Fiction
• Noir fiction
• Wrocław (Poland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Historical fiction
• Murder -- Investigation -- Poland | Wrocław -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Noir fiction
• Historical fiction

Language

• eng
• pol
• eng

Summary

Breslau, 1939. When Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, his notoriously robust stomach is turned. A young girl--and suspected spy--who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant's teeth. Ill at ease with the increasingly open integration of S.S., Gestapo and police, Mock is partially relieved to be assigned to liaise with officers in Lvov, Poland, where a series of similar crimes--as yet unsolved--cast a long shadow over the town. In Lvov he joins the ongoing investigation conducted by Commissioner Popielksi, a fellow classicist who relies on a highly unorthodox method of deduction. Meanwhile, Popielski is worried by the behaviour of his only daughter, Rita. Her head has been turned by her charismatic drama teacher, and now, unbeknownst to her father, she has started receiving letters from an ardent secret admirer. Eberhard Mock--older, a little wiser, but still a libertine at heart and equally at home in the underworld as in the ranks of authority--once again confirms his position as the most outrageous and unpredictable detective in crime fiction. This is the final volume in this series

Member of

• Melville international crime
• Głowa minotaura

Cataloging source

HQD

Dewey number

891.8/538

Index

no index present

Language note

Tranlated from the Polish

LC call number

PG7170.R26

LC item number

G5613 2014

Literary form

novels

Series statement

Melville International Crime