Crime of the Centuries




Crime of the Centuries


Type of work: Novel
Genre and key words: Science fiction, time travel, Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons, dystopian future
Eras and Settings: nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Germany, United States

Rating: Mature

Short description:

In 1885, a mysterious serial killer, with multiple aliases, eludes the police in three different European countries. His victims include precocious children, miserly shopkeepers, a petty criminal, and a policeman. Swiss, German, and Austrian police want to know: Is he a disorganized madman or does he have some purpose? Who is he and where is he from? Richard Gerhard Becker turns out to have a purpose, and it is taking him on a grand, backward-forward-sideways journey through time that will link his destiny to that of one of the most hated men in modern history—Adolf Hitler. But Becker makes the mistake of joining forces with a woman whose identity is as mysterious as his own. At first attracted to her, he comes to worry that she is interfering in the future he believes will make a better world than the one he came from.


 Characters:

                            Richard Becker, inter-temporal criminal
                            Mitzi Schinagl, mysterious woman who both helps and stymies Becker
                            Maurice Durand, Swiss police inspector
                            Adolf Hitler      
                            

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