A Gentleman of Weight
A Gentleman of Weight
by David Edwards
This is a short mystery novel set in the maelstrom that was Berlin in the 1920′s.
The war to end all wars left no one untouched. Every man who fought the mud and the horror that was trench warfare became a casualty and a stranger to those that knew him before, The peace in Germany was marred with riots, assassinations and civil unrest. Berlin of the 1920′s was not a good time to be a German but it was an interesting time to be a foreign correspondent. The beleaguered Weimar Republic reeled under the constraints of the Treaty of Versailles and old scores were settled.
Herr Ernst Schlage of the Berlin Schutzpolizei is confronted by an apparent suicide of a former German soldier. He thinks it is murder. He is obliged to seek the aid of a British and an American journalist to find the murderer before scandal becomes an embarrassment to the British Home Office and Schlage is ordered to end the investigation.
The story gets into the hands of the British Press and the Home Office is obliged to call in Scotland Yard Special Branch and MI 6 to investigate the rumour. The three men involved in the investigation are summoned to the British Embassy in Berlin where they expect ambassador, Lord D’Abernon, to tell them it is to be closed down before it becomes a political hot potato.
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