In diesem Band verffentlicht die Bestsellerautorin Fred Vargas drei Geschichten mit Kommisar Adamsberg, dem Ermittler aus Ihren preisgekrnten Kriminalromanen. Es werden Geschichten erzhlt von einer Toten, die in der Weihnachtsnacht aus der Seine gefischt wird, oder einem Obdachlosen, der im Dunkel der Nacht einen Mord beobachtet, seine Aussage aber verweigert. - Drei Geschichten voll skurrilem Humor und erstaunlichen Dialogen.

Auf den 13 Eingangstüren eines Hochhauses im 18. Pariser Arrondissement sind sorgfältig eine umgekehrte "4" und die Buchstaben "CLT" aufgemalt. Kommissar Adamsberg rätselt über die Bedeutung nach: nur ein spinnertes Graffiti oder verbirgt sich dahinter eine verschlüsselte Drohung?

Joss le Guern is a town crier in Paris's 14th arrondissement. Over the course of a few days, however, a number of enigmatic and disturbing messages are slipped in to the daily news, and he becomes increasingly alarmed. In the course of his inquiries he begins to sense a sinister and often grotesque menace.

Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend?

Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it.

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects & arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is highly successful.

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case, he must call in a favour from the pathologist Ariane Lagarde.

Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers is also killed people begin to wonder - could it be the work of a werewolf? Commissaire Adamsberg is called to investigate.

Adamsberg travels to London, where a routine conference draws him into a disturbing investigation.
Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. With him are a young sergeant, Estalere, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard.
Just outside the baroque and romantic old Highgate cemetery a pile of shoes is found. Not so strange in itself, but the shoes contain severed feet. As...

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HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?
Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A tiny piece of bone. Human bone, in fact. When Kehlweiler takes his find to the nearest police station, he faces ridicule. Obsessed by the fragment, he follows the trail to the tiny Breton...