Der rote Kreis

Scotland Yard and a private detective team up to solve the mystery of the "Red Circle" - someone in a black hood is blackmailing people and killing them if they don't pay up, always leaving a calling card of a red circle, which is a sort of curse because a past family member was not properly killed by a guillotine. The ancestors now pay the red circle's price.

Typically atmospheric thriller set in London, and fairly compelling with a neat pace and a serpentine plot. The villain is quite a deviously cunning fellow, appearing like a spectre, using blackmail as a weapon - some krimi thrillers tend to be weighed down with slow spots and dialogue, but here everything is moving, flowing like fine wine. I particularly enjoyed this one. There some good characters like the one Renate Ewert plays- she's a shady one and beautiful, too. The twist is a great one, and built up really well.