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Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther crime novels and many other works, dies aged 62

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Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther crime novels and many other works, dies aged 62

Mar 26 2018

Philip Kerr, 62, author of the Bernie Gunther crime novels and many other works of fiction for adults and children, died Friday of cancer. Putnam will publish his newest series novel, Greeks Bearing Gifts, on April 3, and Kerr had finished a draft of the next Gunther novel, Metropolis, slated for publication next year.

Source: The Guardian

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