Death of a Foreign Gentleman

The book cover for Death of a Foreign Gentleman by Steven Carroll includes the tagline 'Miles Franklin Award Winning Author' and the quote 'A writer worth cherishing. Carroll's prose is unfailingly assured, lyrical, poised.' The Australian

The image is of a large, blue, old style car with lit headlights, driving across a dark blue road that's arched forward from a yellow outline of a building not unlike Luna Park.

Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The Third Man and Brighton Rock .

Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German...Read more