01810nam a2200325 i 4500 384103 InACL 20261015150436.0 261015s2013 xx 0 eng d 9781906694722 1906694729 InACL eng rda InACL 891.8538 KRA 23 Krajewski, Marek author The end of the world in Breslau / Marek Krajewski ; translated by Danusia Stok Brooklyn, N.Y : Melville House, 2013 294 pages ; text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "1927, Breslau, Poland: Two elaborate and sadistic murders are discovered within days of each other. The body of an unknown musician, bound and gagged, is found in the walls of a shoemaker's workshop--he's been sealed in alive. Elsewhere in the city, the mutilated body of a locksmith is found. Next to each victim is a torn-out calendar page, with the day of the death marked in blood. Nothing else seems to connect the cases. It falls to Criminal Councilor Eberhard Mock to uncover the link, the mystery taking him deep into the Breslau underground, a scene of bars and bordellos so sordid as to be nearly supernatural, and where seedy aristocrats trade in valuable information ... and where, it becomes clear, a serial killer lurks. Meanwhile, Mock's own hard-drinking nocturnal habits soon threaten his volatile marriage, and prompt some strange behavior from his young wife ... and before long, Cults Murder Police Investigation Social conditions Fiction Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural Crime, fiction 634238 634238 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-10-15 0 891.8538 KRA 384103 2026-10-15 15:04:36 2026-10-15 BK