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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1929
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • What Emil lost: all his money. What Emil found: 100 detectives who'll help him catch the man who stole it! When Emil got on the train for the city, his money was safely pinned to his pocket. When he got off, the money was gone! Emil knows who ...





  • In the book that spawned the beloved movie The Parent Trap, nine-year-old Lisa from Vienna -- bold, with a head of curls -- meets Munich's buttoned-up Lottie at summer camp. Soon, a newspaper clipping tells the tale: they're identical twins, Lisa liv...



  • This new edition of the English translation of Kastner's 1931 novel restores the erotic elements prudishly omitted in its 1932 publication. Fabian, an advertising copywriter who loses his job in early 1930s Berlin, visits tawdry sex establishments; h...



  • On the train, his fellow passengers are impressed with how polite and grown-up Emil is, and the man in the bowler hat offers him some chocolate―but Emil keeps checking his coat pocket, where he’s pinned the money that he is taking to his grandmot...



  • Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising co...



  • Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called 'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Ma...



  • 'Walter Trier's deceptively innocent drawings are as classic as Kastner's words; I never tire of them' Quentin Blake Luise has ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look exactly the same. But they are sure that they have never set ey...



  • 'Matches, buy my matches, ladies and gents!' calls Luise Pogge, a.k.a. 'Dot', evening after evening, standing on Weidendammer Bridge in the middle of Berlin. Of course, her wealthy parents have no idea of her whereabouts, believing her to be in the s...






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    Emil and the three twins? Three Twins? Yes, you read that correctly. Emil Tischbein has another adventure with his old friends the Professor, Gustav and Little Tuesday - this time by the sea. Of course, the detectives couldn't have an ordinary seasid...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Erich Kastner has published 10 books.

Erich Kastner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dot and Anton, was published in September 2015.

The first book by Erich Kastner, Emil and the Detectives, was published in January 1929.

No. Erich Kastner does not write books in series.