When I started seriously writing my first version of the story of Hauenstein in Berlin 25 years ago filmmaker Thomas Struck ...

Part One of this series about the roots of my Berlin thriller Hauenstein I described how, aged 24 in the winter of 1984-85 I ...

Part One of this series about the roots of my Berlin thriller Hauenstein I described how, aged 24 in the winter of 1984-85 I first encountered Peter Bruegel the Elder’s painting The Triumph of Death ...

Some weeks earlier my professor, Christopher Frayling, had introduced me to the idea of research by serendipity, or “random” discovery. According to his method I went to the nearest shelf unit and ...