Created by Martin Suter
You’re pulling my leg, right?
JOHANN FRIEDRICH von ALLMEN is the proud owner of one of the most fancy-pants names in the entire shamus game. He’s also the suave dandy “head” of Allmen International Inquiries, a detective agency that specializes in the recovery of stolen objets d’art and other precious trinkets, and with that triple-barreled monicker, you gotta figure he knows what he’s doing, right?
But his clever and pragmatic Guatemalan butler (and business partner) CARLOS de LEON is dubious. Extremely dubious. As in Wooster-and-Jeeves dubious.
Not that von Allmen is necessarily as befuddled as Wooster, but he has his moments. And the family fortune that opens so many doors for him? Well, let’s just say he’s not quite as solvent as he seems–which is why he’s running a detective agency, and various other scams.
I will say, though–von Allmen may be a cad, a scoundrel and a cheat, but the guy’s a likable cad, scoundrel and cheat.
Their cases take the would-be gentleman sleuth and his “man” through all the swellegant places in Europe, where they hobnob with the rich and the famous, in a series of frothy, lightly comic adventures, originally written in German by Martin Suter, a Swiss author, columnist and screenwriter. The books are now being translated into English by New Vessel Press, and a series of made-for-television movies began airing in Germany in 2017, and in North America with subtitles for those of you fortunate enough to get MHz or MHz Choice.
NOVELS
- Allmen und die Libellen (2010; in English as “Allmen and the Dragonflies”) | Buy this book | Buy this audio | Kindle it!
- Allmen und der rosa Diamant (2011; in English as “Allmen and the Pink Diamond”) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Allmen und die Dahlien (2013)
- Allmen und die verschwundene María (2014; in English as “Allmen and the Vanished Maria”)
- Allmen und die Erotik (2018)
TELEVISION
- ALLMEN
(2017-19, Universum Film [Germany])
Based on characters created by Martin Suter
Directors:Director: Thomas Berger
Writers: Martin Rauhaus
Starring Heino Ferch as JOHANN FRIEDRICH von ALLMEN
and Samuel Finzi as CARLOS de LEON
Also starring Andrea Osvárt, Isabella Parkinson, Jörg Pintsch
Guest stars: Justus Carrière, Werner Biermeier, Ben Becker
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- Allmen und die Libellen (April 29, 2017)
- Allmen und der rosa Diamant (May 6, 2017)
- Allmen und das Geheimnis der Dahlien (March 17, 2019) | Buy the DVD
THE DICK OF THE DAY
- June 15, 2021
He may be a cad, a scoundrel and a cheat, but this would-be German nobleman is a likable cad, scoundrel and cheat. -
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
