Tue, Jan 3, 2012
A rich, grumpy, unpopular landlord was murdered in his building. Tobias Hartl and Christian Lind investigate his mostly displeased tenants. There's a denied rumor about a stolen, valuable rare comic, which was offered by Internet before and in kind after the murder to an eager Berlin dealer. Meanwhile the precinct buzzes with the rumor that aloof controller Ortmann prepared popular secretary Stockl's dismissal, which chief Achzinger learns is part of a ploy to avoid that likely intention at the Munich ministry.
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
Bird reserve official Fritz Moser was skull-smashed and is found near one of the model airplanes he forbid -in vain- members of the club to come retrieve. H's found by a biologist guide and staff member with a shot at his succession, which for now goes to the administrative deputy. Looking into staff, Hansen and Korbinian find evidence of bribery and blackmail involving fraud and a project from the reserve's main sponsor to build a drones technology research center. Meanwhile, chief Achziger keeps brigadier Mohr in the dark about a plan to get him promoted.
Tue, Feb 7, 2012
Curate Alois Radlkofer notices on his morning walk a sound from a newly dug grave in the churchyard, containing the corpse of his parish choir master Hans Maierhofer. The victim's employer Max Stenzler hides his contracting firm's grave trouble due to unfair competition, which precinct controller tips off Hansen and Hartl about after meeting her former study lover Florian, a business consultant. Fresh widow Agnes hides her affair with Martin Wegmann; the deputy choir master, who can now push through his incompatible artistic views, also at the festival in chief Achzinger's music academy.
Tue, Feb 14, 2012
Psychiater Dr. Lorenz Schenkendorff met Patrizia Ortmann while he gave a seminar and they flirted in his practice, where she tries the famous couch, only to find him fatally poisoned by missing blow pipe. Anyone had access as the building is being renovated by dodgy contractor-developer Eberhardt Kranzstetter, who gave Lorenz an incredibly good deal, unlike his expulsion-fearing former partner, whose Australian souvenir collection included a missing didgeridoo, which may have served as blowpipe. The contractor's engineer confides about safety-compromising irregularities, after keeping silent at the marketing reception they still attended, catered in the very building by Jo, who observed crucial details.
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
Adult roofer Franz Reitenauer was found by two young colleagues, fatally stabbed at night in employer Roderich Küfner's workshop. Shy apprentice Markus Deininger shows little fake sympathy, having been pestered by Reitenauer, as testified by his protective mate Felix Henke, whose mother, a judge, provides a false alibi, being blackmailed for fleeing from a car crash site. Forensic firm accounting shows Küfner's major insurance fraud. Secretary Stockl speculates all over the precinct what the D stands on the golden ring with blue gem which forensic pathologist Dr. Eckstein lost in a dispensable glove during the pre-autopsy autopsy on site.
Tue, Mar 6, 2012
Feared tax inspector and amateur author Wildegger was fatally shot at home, in forester Hermann Mitterer's guest house, with a hunting rifle from the latter's cabinet. Hansen and Hartl investigate. The victim's laptop is missing, presumably with his manuscript entry for local publisher Claudia Bronner's selection of the annual city-sponsored cultural award. Achziger is asked to chair the jury and learns about bribery rumors, in fact also blackmail linking to the case. Mitterer's wife Christa keeps lying about her affair with Wildegger.
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Theodor von Stain lies skull-smashed in his living, midst broken exclusive porcelain from his priceless collection, not the murder weapon. Stadler and Ludwig Loibl's prime suspect is his cousin Franz, after a loud, umpteenth brawl, reported by housekeeper Helmut Kranich. Christian Pfister's adulterous wife Henriette points at him. Meanwhile the music academy hosts an international concert pianist who wants a Bavarian farm visit, so must cater at Marie's for a total of seventeen, last minute. The Stain planned to earn a fortune from the aristocratic title by Franz adopting a Pfister.
Tue, Oct 2, 2012
Ludwig Hubachner was skull-smashed Sunday night in his office with an award his locks firm won. He just returned from his Fklorida villa with second wife Lea, having left the management to his son Karl Freidrich and proxy agent Jürgen Wieland, who blame each-other for the dire state of business. That was reported by devoted company secretary Bettina Reimers, who turns out to be Ludwig's lover. The porcelain has its own story. Meanwhile the precinct buzzes about the cabriolets lent to Ortmann by Salzburg car dealership owner Jens Fischer.
Tue, Oct 9, 2012
The hiker who found Karl Langer skull-smashed in a mountain cabin believes he saw a man rush off. Karl attended the day before the opening of the testament of his stepbrother, who owned their father's traditional costumes workshop, which Karl managed till he was sacked in favor of an employee, who now inherits the firm, the family gets consolation prizes. To chief Achziger's horror, the prime suspects are state attorney Claudia Wölk, in whose hotel room some 100.000 Euro was found, and her husband, senior police detective Anton, both from neighboring district Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Fresh widow Miriam Langer,'s alibi proves leaky, and she cashed nice sums from a joint Langers account, which proves the key after coded black accounting is found. Stockl noses why the Wölks don't share a hotel room.
Tue, Oct 16, 2012
Stockl and Marie Hofer, who was contacting him for a lecture at the music academy, become formal suspects, having stumbled upon the skull-smashed Haiku-poet Shiki Masaoka in Isolde Daritz's boarding house, where he was giving a literary course. Husband Josef Daritz knew about her affair with the author, who actually seduced several students, including Marion Süßmayr, flirtatious wife of the designated cult minister, and manufacturer's heiress Klara Merz, whose managing brother Ferdinand Merz is her alibi. Sergeant Micki finds out Shiki Masaoka isn't even Japanese, but a suave German swindler who adopted a long-dead poet's identity.