Allmen and the Pink Diamond

An unimaginably valuable pink diamond has gone missing and a mysterious Russian residing in Switzerland is suspected of having made off with the treasured jewel. But the investigative duo of Johann Friedrich von Allmen and his Guatemalan butler Carlos are on the case. Their search leads from London to Zurich to a grand hotel on the Baltic coast. Amorous adventures and diverting mishaps litter the path through a world of European high culture and luxury, with hard-knuckle forays into global financial markets and high tech moves to manipulate them. This is the second in a series of fast-paced detective novels devoted to a memorable gentleman thief who, with his trusted sidekick, runs an international detective agency to recover stolen precious objects. Don’t miss the first in the series, Allmen and the Dragonflies.

203 Pages

Release Date: 2019

Martin Suter, born in Zurich in 1948, is a novelist, screenwriter and newspaper columnist. He has written a dozen novels, many of them best-sellers in Europe and translated into 32 languages. Suter lives with his family in Zurich.

Steph Morris is a writer, translator, artist, gardener and cyclist based in London after many years in Berlin. 

Reviews

“Delightfully quirky and original, it feels like a Golden Age detective novel transposed, wonderfully, into the 21st century.” Peter James, author of Dead Simple and Dead Man’s Time

“Sophisticated sybarite Allmen of course gets the best of everything … the Pink Diamond turns out not to be as expected, and Allmen and faithful Carlos enter the slippery realm of high ­finance. Immense fun for lovers of ­international mystery.” Library Journal

“Johann Friedrich von Allmen is a pleasant alternative to the many seedy, lonely and sordid investigators in most crime novels. Allmen is elegant, cultivated, measured, but never dull and always a bit ironic. A good mixture that gives these light-hearted, amusing crime novels their special character.” Westdeutscher Rundfunk