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In The Pale Criminal, Philip Kerr returns Bernie Gunther to Berlin in 1938, where a series of murders of teenage girls forces the private investigator back into the homicide police. Published in 1990, it is the second novel in the Bernie Gunther series. The case unfolds within the institutions of th...

Berlin in 1936 provides the setting for March Violets, Philip Kerr's 1989 historical detective novel and the first appearance of private investigator Bernie Gunther. A murder investigation draws Gunther through the city's criminal circles and the increasingly oppressive institutions of Nazi Germany....

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, released in 2006, depicts French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath’s mission to Cairo. He investigates the disappearance of his colleague, Jack Jefferson, uncovering an intricate network of espionage. The film was directed by Michel Hazanavicius and stars Jean D...

The Ipcress File is a 1965 British spy thriller centered on Harry Palmer, a War Office intelligence officer tasked with uncovering the fate of missing scientists. The film adapts Len Deighton’s novel and follows Palmer's investigation into a complex espionage case involving government personnel. It...

Desolation Jones is a mature espionage and noir comic created by Warren Ellis and J. H. Williams III and launched in 2005. It follows a former British intelligence agent who works as a private investigator, combining the conventions of spy fiction with the atmosphere of a detective story. The series...

A Bullet for Joey is a 1955 American film noir directed by Lewis Allen and starring Edward G. Robinson and George Raft. Its story combines organized crime with Cold War espionage: a gangster is drawn into a kidnapping scheme involving a scientist. The film is intended for viewers interested in mid-c...