TY - BOOK AU - Kastber, Erich TI - Emil and the Detectives SN - 071351941X U1 - 813.54 PY - 1977/// KW - Crime N2 - Emil and the Detectives is a 1929 novel for children set mainly in Berlin, by the German writer Erich Kästner and illustrated by Walter Trier. It was Kästner's first major success, the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship, and remains his best-known work ER -