Review
I have to give Jonathan Rabb extra stars because of Berlin. This second novel featuring noirish detective Nikolai Hoffner is set in Weimar Berlin with all of it wildness and immorality, and shows the beginnings of the Nazi rise to power in Germany. As in his previous novel, Rabb brings real historical persons into the mix. Here, where the subject is the German film industry, Fritz Lang and Peter Lorre appear along with many more figures of the time instrumental to the political situation.