Case of the Lamp That Went Out

Augusta Groner, an Austrian schoolteacher, created the first professional detective in German fiction - Joseph Muller, small, shabby, apologetic, and the finest investigator on the Vienna force. A body in the Stadtpark and a lamp that burned out at exactly the wrong hour set him on a trail he would rather not follow, for Muller's trouble is that he keeps pitying the very people he catches. This ed...