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One by one, over a period of several years, the wife and children of a prominent Hamburg citizen are being slain. Von Ditfurth has crafted a breathtaking thriller that highlights in vivid detail how present the German past is today.
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One by one, over a period of several years, the wife and children of a prominent Hamburg citizen are being slain. Von Ditfurth has crafted a breathtaking thriller that highlights in vivid detail how present the German past is today.

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Kevin Allman
Ditfurth, who is a historian, unwinds his story slowly and methodically, hinting at glimmers of the whole puzzle in every chapter, until all is revealed in the novel's final pages. Other Stachelmann translations are on their way to North America and England; fans of Ruth Rendell should welcome Ditfurth's quiet, authoritative voice.
—The Washington Post
Publishers Weekly

German historian Ditfurth's fictional alter ego, Josef Stachelmann, makes an engaging protagonist in this well-crafted crime thriller, the first in a new series. Stachelmann, an academic based in Hamburg, is popular with students, but the thesis he needs to complete to get tenure has stalled amid an overwhelming mass of papers the professor calls his "mountain of shame." He's roused from his rut by an old classmate, Oskar Winter, now a local police commissioner, who enlists his help in solving a baffling series of crimes that have claimed over the years the life of the wife and two children of respected local businessman Maximilian Holler. Despite Holler's sterling reputation, the probe's discovery of some unusual real estate deals suggests he's hiding something, perhaps connected with Holler's Nazi father. The author sensitively handles the difficult issue of how modern Germany has dealt with its past. (Mar.)

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German author von Ditfurth's English-language debut is the first novel in a projected series featuring history professor Josef Stachelmann. After a wealthy Hamburg realtor's third family member is murdered, it becomes apparent the realtor is being targeted. When it looks as though revenge leading back to the Nazi era may be at play, Stachelmann, an expert on Hitler's Germany, is brought in to help. His research leads him to the roots of the SS and the gestapo in the Hamburg region and their involvement in the destruction of the Jews. Von Ditfurth brilliantly personifies the humiliation and shame felt by a generation newly discovering the lengths to which their parents went in order to survive. Readers will not soon forget this foray into the past.


—Jo Ann Vicarel Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
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A novel of multiple, contemporary murders ultimately traceable to World War II events. Irascible Josef Maria Stachelmann has been laboring as a professor in Hamburg but has yet to complete his post-doctoral work, a task that should secure his tenuous position in the history department at the university. His area of expertise is the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Meanwhile, over the past few years, three members of the family of Maximilian Holler, a prominent businessman, have been murdered. Holler is seemingly upstanding and morally squeaky-clean, but it turns out he covers up a dark past. Chief investigator in these murders is Oskar "Ossi" Winter, head of Hamburg's murder squad and an old college buddy of Stachelmann. As the investigation gets more complicated, Winter calls on his friend to provide historical context, for it appears that, back in the 1930s, Holler's father had been involved in a plan-legal but incontestably immoral-to buy Jewish properties at deflated prices. Implicated in this scheme were the local Hamburg police, who eased the way for businessmen like Holler's father-and it turns out that Stachelmann's father had also played a role in this intrigue. What's unclear to Winter is who's been bumping off Holler's family. It's obviously an act of revenge, but is it being carried out by businessmen that Holler has been putting the screws to? Or by an old victim of the machinations of Holler's father? Tension builds as a black Mercedes deliberately runs over a policewoman involved in the investigation, and a mysterious man with long white hair pushes Stachelmann onto a train track to try to keep him from uncovering the core of the mystery. A tense thriller,deeply rooted in Nazi history.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781592642205
  • Publisher: Toby Press LLC, The
  • Publication date: 3/1/2008
  • Pages: 250
  • Product dimensions: 5.75 (w) x 8.75 (h) x 1.30 (d)

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  • Posted March 20, 2011

    A Great Read-highly recommended!

    "A Paragon Of Virtue" may be Christian Von Ditfurth's first murder mystery involving history Professor Stachelmann's sleuth work but I hope it is not his last. The plot is fast paced and reeks with authenticity regarding the terrifying Nazi epoch in Germany. The character development is first class with nice bits of humor in the dialog between the main characters. A fine piece of work.

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