Bernie Gunther

Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther is a fictional German detective created by the British author Philip Kerr. Throughout the series of fourteen novels, he serves as both a homicide investigator of the Berlin Police and later a private detective. During the Nazi era he is enlisted back into the service of Kriminalpolizei at the order of Reinhard Heydrich.

Kerr originally produced the "Berlin Noir" trilogy of novels between 1989 and 1991. After a fifteen year hiatus the character returned in The One from the Other.^[1] In the following entry A Quiet Flame Kerr shifted the setting of the later novels away from postwar Germany. In 1949 after a complex case, Gunther escapes West Germany to Argentina by an underground network assisting Nazi figures.^[2] His later cases take him to Havana and Athens. The final entry in the series was the prequel Metropolis (2019) which took Gunter back to his roots as an officer of the murder squad in Berlin under Ernst Gennat in 1928.^[3]