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Cavalcade

Walter Satterthwait: Cavalcade (UK 2017)

From the Publisher:
Germany 1923 and that seemingly ill-matched pair of Pinkerton detectives Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner are facing their most dangerous assignment.

In a Berlin park, supposedly at a secret meeting, a little-known but on-the-rise German politician is the target of an assassination attempt and the Pinkertons are hired to track down the sniper. The first question they face is just who is this Adolf Hitler and why would anyone want to kill him? It turns out, quite a few people, not the least some in his own fledgling National Socialist party (and not to mention a passing Englishman called Household). A trail of murders lead 'The Pinkerton Pair' from Berlin night clubs such as the Mikado Bar and the Black Cat Cabaret, which offer rather specialised entertainment, to an Institute of Sexology and then, after changing trains with a certain Mr Norris, to Bayreuth and Munich to meet, among others, the Wagner family, Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering, accompanied by Hitler's best friend Putzi Hanfstaengl, who may not be the genial host he pretends to be.

First UK publication.

Walter Satterthwait: Cavalcade. Ostara Publishing, ISBN: 9791909619516 (October, 2017), 258 p., £12.99, eBook £6.00.

 

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Cavalcade

Walter Satterthwait: Cavalcade (USA 2005)

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Pinkerton agents Jane Turner and Philip Beaumont have just finished another difficult assignment abroad; now the office is sending them to Germany. Their job: to find the assassin who almost succeeded in killing Adolf Hitler when he was in Berlin.

Their first surprise is a pleasant one -- the Nazi big shot assigned to be their guide, Ernst (Putzi) Hanfstaengl, is a huge, jovial man who amazes his guests immediately; his English is almost without any accent! Hanfstaengl has learned American ways during his student days at Harvard. He is a talented pianist and as friendly as a puppy. Jane and Phil have no reason to think his fellow Nazis are not just as personable. This isn't going to be so bad.

Everything starts to go downhill after that, however, although a handsome Nazi almost turns Jane's head with his attentions. Their job becomes a questionable one as the agents see more and more of the new party's dreadful face. A woman who gives them some information is found murdered. There are other deaths, all clearly connected to the Nazi Party. By the time Jane and Phil meet Hitler, they are not only horrified and puzzled about why the Pinkerton agency accepted the job, they are very aware that they are in danger themselves.

Walter Satterthwait has uncannily taken his readers to the Germany of 1923, introducing them to characters from the actual front pages of the period's newspapers -- Hanfstaengl, Rudolf Hess, and many others. As in the previous two books of this series, the crimes that Turner and Beaumont encounter are committed against a genuinely historical background. It all adds up to a suspenseful story of two likable people at risk in the treacherous atmosphere of Germany's postwar nightmare.

Walter Satterthwait: Cavalcade. A Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312339747 (February, 2005), 354 p., $23.95.

 

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