<div>&ldquo;A sophisticated and urbane novel with a swanky, dapper European setting that is as much Poe and Chandler as Hitchcock and Truffaut . . . A page-turner&rdquo; (Andr&eacute; Aciman, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name). Adrian Weynfeldt is an art expert in an international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he&rsquo;s given up on love until one night&mdash;entirely out of character for him&mdash;Weynfeldt decides to take home a ravishing but unaccountable young woman. The next morning, he finds her outside on his balcony threatening to jump. Weynfeldt talks her down and soon finds himself falling for this damaged but alluring beauty and his buttoned-up existence comes unraveled. As their two lives become entangled, Weynfeldt gets embroiled in an art forgery scheme that threatens to destroy everything he and his prominent family have stood for. This refined page-turner moves behind elegant bourgeois fa&ccedil;ades into darker recesses of the heart. &ldquo;Suter . . . leavens the sensationalism of crime fiction with psychological insight and melancholy . . . Comfort food for readers who crave memorable characters, romance, and touching, drawn-from-life scenes.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Swift, edgy . . . What distinguishes this work is the air of slightly faded existential elegance, which sets off the modern setting splendidly . . . Great for sophisticated suspense fans.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal (starred review) &ldquo;Set in the midst of that vibrant and bizarre organism known as the art world. A captivating read about a memorable protagonist.&rdquo; &mdash;Noah Charney, author of The Museum of Lost Art</div>

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The Last Weynfeldt

<div>&ldquo;In the honorable vein of elegant, gentleman thieves, comes Allmen, the colorful protagonist of Suter&rsquo;s beautifully observed, deliciously fun novel&rdquo; (Noah Charney, author of The Museum of Lost Art). Johann Friedrich von Allmen, a bon vivant of dandified refinement, has exhausted his family fortune. Forced to downscale, Allmen inhabits the garden house of his former Zurich estate, attended by his Guatemalan butler, Carlos. When not reading novels by Balzac and Somerset Maugham, he plays jazz on a Bechstein baby grand. Allmen&rsquo;s fortunes take a sharp turn when he meets Jojo, a stunning blonde whose lakeside villa contains five Art Nouveau bowls created by renowned French artist &Eacute;mile Gall&eacute; and decorated with a dragonfly motif. Allmen, seeking to pay off mounting debts, absconds with the priceless bowls and embarks on a high-risk, potentially violent bid to cash them in. This is the first of a series of humorous, fast-paced detective novels devoted to a memorable gentleman thief who, with his trusted sidekick, Carlos, creates an investigative firm to recover missing precious objects. &ldquo;A rollicking good time . . . Bestselling Swiss author Martin Suter may have a classic on his hands in this contemporary crime novel, the first of a series featuring the memorable character of Johann Friedrich von Allmen, gentleman thief.&rdquo; &mdash;The Winnipeg Free Press &ldquo;Suter combines sleight-of-hand suspense with stunning art and slightly worn Old World elegance to create a smartly entertaining read . . . A classy puzzler.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;The dark charms of Suter&rsquo;s novel are irresistible from the first pages.&rdquo; &mdash;Joshua Max Feldman, author of Start WithoutMe</div>

Allmen and the Dragonflies

<div>When a $30 million diamond disappears, the gentleman P.I. embarks on an adventure across Europe in this &ldquo;delightfully quirky and original&rdquo; mystery (Peter James, author of Dead Simple). A rare pink diamond recently sold at auction has gone missing, and gentleman thief turned private detective Johann Freidrich von Allmen cannot resist the case&mdash;even if his butler and business partner Carlos de Leon has his reservations. With suspicion falling on a man named Artyom Sokolov, Allmen and de Leon embark from London to Zurich in search of the mysterious Russian. Soon the two discover that they are up against a conspiracy far more complex and dangerous than they suspected. And as amorous adventures and diverting mishaps litter their path through Europe&rsquo;s high society, Allmen and de Leon get closer to uncovering a high-tech plot to manipulate global financial markets.</div>

Allmen and the Pink Diamond

<div>This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others. This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You&#39;ll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich B&ouml;ll, Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. It also includes the first published English translation of Joseph Roth&rsquo;s story &ldquo;Christmas in Cochinchina.&rdquo; Enjoy Eine fr&ouml;hliche Weihnachten&#8213;A Merry Christmas&#8213;made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, all accompanied by plenty of schnapps.</div>

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The Last Weynfeldt

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A Very German Christmas

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