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Word: karlovich (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that case, Despair is a murder story, although it is not one to be found in the racks of every bus station. On a trip to Prague in 1930, Hermann Karlovich, a Russian émigré in the chocolate-manufacturing business based in Berlin, meets a vagrant whose face is astonishingly like his own. Or so it appears to Hermann; Felix Wohlfahrt, the tramp, does not notice the resemblance. Back in Berlin, Hermann broods. It soon becomes clear that he is a schizophrenic and that his thoughts are murderous. As innocent accomplices to his plot he recruits three people-including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Face Value | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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