Jake Randolph: Origins Pt. 65
My expense account was rising fast, so I thought I'd better exercise a little of that frugality that Lieutenant Rivers spoke of. I booked into the Hotel Paradies on the outskirts of Zurich. This dump wasn't exactly paradise. I doubt it would even qualify as a whistle stop on the train to glory.
Once the desk clerk stopped speaking German, which I didn't know was one of the main languages in Switzerland, and started conversing in English, I asked him who I should see if I wanted to know about the things that go on behind the scenes in Zurich...
- Category: Crime, Murder & Mystery
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Neville Hunt almost 7 years ago
Thinking about post-war Zurich has made me think of the film The Third Man (my favourite film). If you've not seen it, Christopher, you might well like it as it is set in post-war Vienna, ravaged and sinister, partitioned and menacing,..and above all, fascinating.
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Christopher almost 7 years ago
I don't think I've ever seen it but I'll definitely be on the lookout for it. I used to listen to an old radio show from the early 50's called The Lives Of Harry Lime, which was a prequel to the film but Orson Welles actually did the voice of Lime in it.
