Leo Donat has recently become a private detective after a successful spell of unemployment. Business is going badly when Dr. Dieter Durante, program director of Phönix Verlag, pays him a visit. He is to investigate the disappearance of his most important regional crime novelist in Bavaria. Leo hates regional crime novels as much as he hates the provinces, but somehow he has to finance his next joint.
Reluctantly, he sets off on a search that takes him all over Germany. He meets booksellers and t...
