Self's murder

Description

Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best--investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but to do so he needs Self to track down a mysterious silent partner. Self takes the job, but is soon accosted by a man who frantically hands him a suitcase full of cash and speeds off in a car, only to crash into a tree, dying instantly. Perplexed, and convinced there is more to the case than he is being told, Self follows the money. Soon he finds himself traveling to eastern Germany, where he encounters some of the most unsavory villains he has met yet.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Description

After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to delve into the institution's history, apparently in the name of a book to commemorate the bank's foundation. But his seemingly anodyne brief - to discover the identity of a sleeping partner from several decades before - throws up far more questions than answers.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Self's murderOrion Publishing Group, Limited2009-01-01
• Selbs MordDiogenes2001-01-01
• Selbs MordDiogenes2003-01-01
• La Fin de SelbMass Market PaperbackGallimard2003-05-15
• Selbs Mord.PaperbackDiogenes2003-06-01
• El Fin de SelbPaperbackAnagrama2005-06-01