Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study

A pastor is missing, there is blood on his study floor and no body, and the village has already decided who did it. Joseph Muller - small, shabby, apologetic, and the best detective in the Vienna police - thinks otherwise. Groner was an Austrian schoolteacher who invented the first professional detective in German fiction; Muller's weakness is that he keeps feeling sorry for the people he catches.