Marek Krajewski's series of crime novels set in 1930s Breslau — when the current Polish city now known as Wroclaw was part of Germany — is being adapted for television by Warsaw-based ATM Grupa. Agnieszka Holland will direct the first hour-long episode of the series, which is adapted from the first book in the series, Śmierć w Breslau. It was originally published in Poland in 1999 with an English translation (as Death in Breslau) published in the US in 2012.
More about this book, below …
Occupied Breslau, 1933: Two young women are found murdered on a train, scorpions writhing on their bodies, an indecipherable note in an apparently oriental language nearby. Police Inspector Eberhard Mock's weekly assignation with two ladies of the night is interrupted as he is called to investigate.
But uncovering the truth is no straightforward matter in Breslau. The city is in the grip of the Gestapo, and has become a place where spies are everywhere, corrupt ministers torture confessions from Jewish merchants, and Freemasons guard their secrets with blackmail and violence.
And as Mock and his young assistant Herbert Anwaldt plunge into the city's squalid underbelly the case takes on a dark twist of the occult when the mysterious note seems to indicate a ritual killing with roots in the Crusades …
— Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski
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