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March Violets

Philip Kerr
Chapters (22)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Chapter 1
  5. Chapter 2
  6. Chapter 3
  7. Chapter 4
  8. Chapter 5
  9. Chapter 6
  10. Chapter 7
  11. Chapter 8
  12. Chapter 9
  13. Chapter 10
  14. Chapter 11
  15. Chapter 12
  16. Chapter 13
  17. Chapter 14
  18. Chapter 15
  19. Chapter 16
  20. Chapter 17
  21. Chapter 18
  22. Chapter 19
001

Title Page

001

PENGUIN BOOKS

MARCH VIOLETS

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956 and lives in London. As a journalist he has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times and the New Statesman. He is the author of the novels March Violets, The Pale Criminal, and A German Requiem (published together as Berlin Noir). He is also the author of A Philosophical Investigation, Dead Meat, Gridiron, Esau, A Five-Year Plan, The Shot, The Second Angel, and Dark Matter, and he has edited The Penguin Book of Lies and The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds, and Heartfelt Hatreds.

Copyright Page

PENGUIN BOOKS

Published by the Penguin Group
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First published in the United States of America by Viking 1989
Published in Penguin Books 2004

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Kerr, Philip.
March violets / Philip Kerr.
p. cm.

ISBN : 978-1-101-57592-5

1. Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) — Fiction. 2. Private investigators —
Germany — Berlin — Fiction. 3. Berlin (Germany) — Fiction. I. Title.
PR6061.E784M37 2004
823’.914 — dc22 2004044275

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Dedication

For my mother

BERLIN, 1936

FIRST MAN: Have you noticed how the March Violets have managed to completely overtake Party veterans like you and me?

SECOND MAN: You’re right. Perhaps if Hitler had also waited a little before climbing on to the Nazi bandwagon he’d have become Führer quicker too.

Schwarze Korps, November 1935

Chapter 1

1

Stranger things happen in the dark dreams of the Great Persuader . . .