Allmen and the Erotic Figurines
Volume 5
Allmen
Volume 5
Allmen
Published by Diogenes as Allmen und die Erotik
Original Title: Allmen und die Erotik

The bestselling crime novel series about the gentleman crook Allmen and his assistant Carlos sold more than 800.000 copies in German alone and was adapted for TV in 2017 by UFA fiction.

This fifth episode of the witty series revolves around lovers of art and the art of love.

Fine porcelain can be made into harmless figurines, or sexy artworks. Allmen and Carlos come across a secret hoard of valuable porcelain figures for lovers of explicit erotic depictions. A case that makes them work up quite a sweat because they are not investigating entirely of their own volition: A blackmailing accomplice has them in the palm of his hand.

Crime Fiction, Contemporary Literature
272 pages
2018

978-3-257-07033-0
Martin
Suter

Martin Suter was born in 1948 in Zurich. His novels (including Love and Fury and Melody) and Business Class stories are major international successes. In addition, since 2011 the gentleman thief Allmen has been solving cases in his own crime series. Martin Suter lives with his daughter in Zurich.

Photo: © Joël Hunn

Series

Allmen

Martin Suter’s brilliant cult crime series about the penniless dandy, art connoisseur and amateur detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen (whose real name was Hans Fritz von Allmen, but as he didn’t like the rustic sound of it, he simply refined it).

«Suter writes with the same casual, ironically elegant style as Allmen lives his life.» Martin Halter / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich

Allmen und Herr Weynfeldt
Allmen und die Libellen
Volume 1
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Dragonflies
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Volume 2
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Pink Diamond
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Volume 4
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Vanished Maria
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Volume 5
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Erotic Figurines
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Volume 1
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Dragonflies
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Volume 2
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Pink Diamond
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Volume 4
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Vanished Maria
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Volume 5
Martin Suter
Allmen and the Erotic Figurines
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Quotes

Frauke Kaberka
dpa, Berlin

»Surprising constellations, unforeseeable complications and calculable coalitions characterize this deftly penned novel.«

 

Oliver Schwambach
Saarbrücker Zeitung

»Suter guides his master and servant duo with delicious irony and subtly composed details, and takes unmistakable delight in all the confidence trickery.«

 

Movie adaptations

2021
Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik, Thomas Berger