»Wunderbar! Ein sehr eleganter, süffig erzählter, nicht-blutiger Krimi.«
ELKE HEIDENREICH
CAY RADEMACHER
Die Passage nach Maskat / The Passage to Muscat
A Crime Novel
ca. 384 pages
Autumn 2022
"The dialogues sparkle like the crystal glasses on the first-class tables. Because of this, and thanks to Cay Rademacher's talent for making the twenties, the sea and the atmosphere on the ocean liner 'Champollion' sensual to experience, you're really in on the 'Passage to Muscat’.”WELT AM SONNTAG
Rademacher has written a turgid crime novel, exceedingly trenchant in language and atmosphere. 'The Passage to Muscat' is pure reading pleasure.„ Volker Albers, HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT
Dazzling characters, dramatic entanglements, and the case of a mysterious crime
For fans of Babylon Berlin and Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile
The Roaring Twenties on the High Seas
Late summer 1929, the last summer of the Roaring Twenties. No one recognises the signs of the world economic crisis. Luxury and frivolity, jazz and cocaine still determine the rhythm of life - also on the ocean liner Champollion, which sets sail from Marseille for the Orient: Port Said, the Suez Canal, Yemen, Oman ... The illustrious passengers include a scandalous nude dancer from Berlin and a mysterious Roman lawyer, an aristocratic English lady and an only seemingly naive American engineer, a thug from the underworld - and Theodor Jung, traumatised war veteran and photo reporter for the Berliner Illustrierten, Europe's biggest magazine. He is to do a report on the trip. His wife Dora accompanies him. She comes from the Rosterg family of Hamburg merchants, who are also travelling to Muscat to trade in the fabulous spices of Arabia. Theodor hopes that the adventurous passage will rekindle the passion in their marriage. But Dora's domineering parents and her violent brother despise him, and Bertold Lüttgen, the company's scheming manager, has his own eye on his boss's daughter. When Dora disappears without a trace after a few days on the Champollion, the voyage becomes a nightmare for Theodor - because not only the Rosterg family, but also the other passengers and crew members claim never to have seen Dora on board.
Rights sold to: Le Masque (French)
Die Passage nach Maskat / The Passage to Muscat
A Crime Novel
ca. 384 pages
Autumn 2022
"The dialogues sparkle like the crystal glasses on the first-class tables. Because of this, and thanks to Cay Rademacher's talent for making the twenties, the sea and the atmosphere on the ocean liner 'Champollion' sensual to experience, you're really in on the 'Passage to Muscat’.”WELT AM SONNTAG
Rademacher has written a turgid crime novel, exceedingly trenchant in language and atmosphere. 'The Passage to Muscat' is pure reading pleasure.„ Volker Albers, HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT
Dazzling characters, dramatic entanglements, and the case of a mysterious crime
For fans of Babylon Berlin and Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile
The Roaring Twenties on the High Seas
Late summer 1929, the last summer of the Roaring Twenties. No one recognises the signs of the world economic crisis. Luxury and frivolity, jazz and cocaine still determine the rhythm of life - also on the ocean liner Champollion, which sets sail from Marseille for the Orient: Port Said, the Suez Canal, Yemen, Oman ... The illustrious passengers include a scandalous nude dancer from Berlin and a mysterious Roman lawyer, an aristocratic English lady and an only seemingly naive American engineer, a thug from the underworld - and Theodor Jung, traumatised war veteran and photo reporter for the Berliner Illustrierten, Europe's biggest magazine. He is to do a report on the trip. His wife Dora accompanies him. She comes from the Rosterg family of Hamburg merchants, who are also travelling to Muscat to trade in the fabulous spices of Arabia. Theodor hopes that the adventurous passage will rekindle the passion in their marriage. But Dora's domineering parents and her violent brother despise him, and Bertold Lüttgen, the company's scheming manager, has his own eye on his boss's daughter. When Dora disappears without a trace after a few days on the Champollion, the voyage becomes a nightmare for Theodor - because not only the Rosterg family, but also the other passengers and crew members claim never to have seen Dora on board.
Rights sold to: Le Masque (French)
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Cay Rademacher
Cay Rademacher, born in 1965, is a freelance journalist and author. His Provence series includes eleven cases. DuMont also published his trilogy from...
Cay Rademacher, born in 1965, is a freelance journalist and author. His Provence series includes eleven cases. DuMont also published his trilogy from post-war Hamburg: 'Der Trümmermörder' (2011), 'Der Schieber' (2012) and 'Der Fälscher' (2013). He also published the crime novels ‘Ein letzter Sommer in Méjean' (2019), 'Stille Nacht in der Provence' (2020) and ‘Passage nach Maskat (2022). Cay Rademacher lives with his family near Salon-de-Provence in France.