March Violets
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| March Violets | |
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 The cover of the Penguin Books edition of the novel |
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| Author(s) | Philip Kerr |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Berlin Noir |
| Genre(s) | Crime, Detective, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press, London |
| Publication date | 1989 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 466 pp (Hardback edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0670824311 |
| OCLC Number | 20427383 |
| Dewey Decimal | 823/.914 20 |
| LC Classification | PR6061.E784 M37 1989 |
| Followed by | The Pale Criminal |
March Violets is a detective novel and the first written by Philip Kerr featuring detective Bernhard Gunther. Gunther investigates the murder of the daughter of a wealthy industrialist in Berlin as the 1936 Summer Olympics play out in the city. The major themes of the novel include the every-day violence and anti-Semitism of the regime and the inability or unwillingness of ordinary Germans to act in the face of the coming war. (“March violets” were late-comers to the Nazi Party after the passage of Hitler's Enabling Act (rendering him dictator) on March 23, 1933. In May, the Nazi Party froze membership.)
