The widow killer

Pavel Kohout

Original title: Hvězdná hodina vrahů

earliest edition we have, 1995 St. Martin's Press, 1998 391 pages

"Set in the German-occupied city of Prague during the twilight of World War II, the novel opens jarringly with the gruesome murder of the baroness of Pomerania, the widow of a German Wehrmacht general, by a perverted serial killer. The coroner's report determines that the victim did not resist and was not raped. Mysteriously, her heart was removed and vanished with the killer.". "The unlikely pair of Jan Morava, a r...

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Hvězdná hodina vrahů edition · 2009 · Academia · 412 pages · 9788020017314
widow killer edition · 2000 · Picador USA
The widow killer edition · 1998 · St. Martin's Press · 391 pages
Hvězdná hodina vrahů edition · 1995 · Mladá fronta · 422 pages

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