Marek Krajewski is an award-winning Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 crime writer and linguist.

He is best known for his series of five Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...

esque novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

s set in pre-war Wrocław (which was, at the time, Breslau) with the policeman Eberhard Mock

Eberhard Mock

Eberhard Mock is a fictional detective and counsellor of the police department in Breslau in a series of novels by Marek Krajewski...

 as the protagonist. These novels have been translated into 14 languages: English, French, German, and Italian, among others.

Novels

• Death in Breslau (Śmierć w Breslau), 1999, ISBN 1-84724-518-8. English edition: MacLehose Press/Quercus, London 2008.
• The End of the World in Breslau (Koniec świata w Breslau), 2003. English edition: MacLehose Press/Quercus, London 2009.
• Phantoms in Breslau (Widma w mieście Breslau), 2005. English edition: MacLehose Press/Quercus, London 2010.
• Fortress Breslau (Festung Breslau), 2006
• Plague in Breslau (Dżuma w Breslau), 2007
• Suicide avenue (Aleja samobójców), 2008
• Cemetery roses (Róże cmentarne), 2009
• The Head of Minotaurus (Głowa Minotaura), 2009
• Erynie (Erynie), 2010

External links

• Marek Krajewski webpage (in Polish)