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Bertil Carlsson, former Nobel-Prize Committee member, meets a grisly end in the wood chipper in his garden. No one in the idyllic Bavarian town seems to have wished him ill – Carlsson was a respected member of the town’s traditional costume society. Was it an accident?
Or was it murder? Inspector Jennerwein interviews inflexible costume enthusiasts and disappointed Nobel Prize candidates. When the autopsy reveals that all the bones of Carlsson’s left hand are missing, Jennerwein looks into similar cases and discovers a seemingly incredible research project …
