The Pale Criminal (1990) (edit title/settings)

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• Bernie Gunther: Private Investigator
• Arthur Nebe: Reichskriminaldirektor, head of Berlin's Criminal Police
• Emil Becker: Kriminalassistent, on loan from Department VB3 to help Bernie Gunther
• Julius Streicher: An influential, rich Party member in Nuremberg. Hitler's close friend and owner of the Der Sturmer.
• Dr. Lanz Kindermann: Reinhard Lange's close friend
• Heinrich Himmler: Reichsfuhrer-SS
• Karl Maria Weisthor: The clairvoyant who is Germany's most important sage
• Frau Lange: Wealthy widow, owner of a large publishing company. She hires Bernie Gunther to investigate the blackmailer
• Hildegard Steininger: Emmeline Steininger's mother
• Otto Rahn: SS-Unterscharfuhrer
• Adolf Hitler: Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich).
• Reinhard Lange: Frau Lange's son
• Inspector Eberhard Deubel: Investigating officer of Irma Hanke case
• Bruno Stahlecker: Private Investigator, partner of Bernie Gunther
• Emmeline Steininger: Fourteen-year old missing girl from Steglitz
• Klaus Hering: Male nurse who was dismissed by Kindermann
• Rolf Vogelmann: Private Investigator, Missing Persons specialist
• Sarah Hirsch: Emmeline Steininger's Jewish friend from school
• Herr Steininger: Emmeline Steininger's just passed away father
• Hans Illmann: Professor of Forensic Medicine at the Friedrich Wilhem University in Berlin
• Josef Kahn: Jew who was arrested as the suspect of the murdered four sixteen-year old girls
• Helmut: Distributor of pornographic magazines
• Heinrich Stahlecker: Bruno Stahlecker's son who joins Hitler Youth
• Irma Hanke: Seventeen-year old, disappeared Wednesday, 24 August
• Carl Berg: Forensic pathologist
• Joseph Goebbels: Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945
• Reinhard Heydrich: SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the SD, Gestapo and Kripo)
• Liza Ganz: Missing girl from Moabit
• Marianne: Nurse who helps Bernie at Kindermann Clinic
• Matthias Goering: Cousin of Fat Hermann
• Gottfried Bautz: Prussian cavalry officer
• Evona Wylzynska: Owner of several massage parlours
• Dr Meyer: Physician at Kindermann Clinic
• Benno Martin: The Nuremberg Chief of Police
• Katia Stahlecker: Bruno Stahlecker's wife
• Hanns Lobbes: Reichkriminaldirektor's number three and head of Kripo Executive
• Frau Marie Kalau vom Hofe: Criminologist
• Fritz "Tanker" Gollner: Wachmeister
• Friedrich Korsch: Kriminalassistent, with Bernie Gunther's task force

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Berlin
• Wewelsburg
• Berlin Zoo
• Kripo
• Czechoslovakia
• Steglitz: A prosperous, middle class suburb in south-west Berlin
• Potsdam
• Wannsee
• Alexanderplatz
• Nuremberg
• Moabit

Organizations edit see section history

• Kripo: Kriminalpolizei, the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Nazi Germany

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by March Violets, and followed by A German Requiem.

Preceded by March Violets, and followed by A German Requiem.

Preceded by March Violets, and followed by Um Requiem Alemão.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Philip Kerr (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.914

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery