“Farewell to Selbo” is a new novel about the private detective Gerhard Selbe, slightly older, but having lost not a grain of his sharp humor and masculine charm. A chance road encounter with the owner of a respectable private bank brings Selbe a new, effortless—judging by everything—assignment: he must find the trail of the so-called bank’s silent partner, lost after the war. An ordinary archival investigation grows into a serious story involving financial schemes and money laundering, murder and kidnapping, dark spots in the past and mafia-style showdowns in the present. Such a case is not within the power of every young investigator, but Selbe is not used to stopping halfway, even if this job threatens to put an end not only to his career, but also to his life.