A pastor is missing, there is blood on his study floor and no body, and the village has already decided who did it. Joseph Muller — small, shabby, apologetic, and the best detective in the Vienna police — thinks otherwise. Groner was an Austrian schoolteacher who invented the first professional detective in German fiction; Muller's weakness is that he keeps feeling sorry for the people he catches. Fifty-six plates of nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting, from Munch to Waldmüller, trace the shadowed interiors, streets and faces that give these Viennese cases their uneasy light.
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study, and Other Stories : A Vienna Case for Joseph Muller
Skrevet af Auguste Groner
