King Queen Knave 1ST Edition

The setting is Berlin in the late 1920's: "An unprepossessing sullen little cafe'.... a lady in a moleskin coat... a young man in tortoise-shell glasses, sipping cherry brandy and gazing into each other's eyes" The lady in the fur coat is Martha Dreyer. The myopic young man in Franz, her bumbling lover and her husband's nephew. Her husband, oblivious to thier meeting, plods on with his money-making schemes. Martha, "strictly adhering to every rule of adultry," is clumsily plotting her husband's murder so that she and Franz may live happily ever after on his money., ISBN13: B000Q3L3SO ISBN10: B000Q3L3SO Material Type: hardcover