Among enthusiasm for chess and mysterious events, Alma Täuber investigates – the third case for the telephone operator
Baden-Baden 1925. The spa town is overrun by enthusiastic chess fans and is buzzing as if it were a summer resort. Everyone wants to follow the international chess tournament in the spa hotel’s magnificent tournament hall. The telephone operator Alma Täuber and her friend Emmi have also caught chess fever. Until a tragic accident demands Alma's full attention. Gertrude, a colleague's cousin, was found dead in a washing machine drum in the laundry steamhouse. The police assume it was an accident or suicide. But both seem unlikely to Alma. Despite the warnings from her friend, detective inspector Ludwig Schiller, she begins to question Gertrude's milieu – and sees something while in the infamous Libelle dance hall that is not intended for her eyes. Did Gertrude know about it too? And did it cost her her life?
