Joseph Muller, a small, plain, self-effacing detective of the Austrian imperial police, takes up a case that begins with a pool of blood in a pastor’s study. With a tiny chip of grey and yellow lacquer found beside a desk leg, and his unfailing eye for what others overlook, he pieces together what happened there.
A short case from one of the earliest series detectives created by a woman writer, here in English translation. Download the free EPUB.