Mysterious disappearance

Author: Friedrich Achenbach
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Chief of Police P?lden is on vacation, and his female colleague Sonja calls for help: A man named Holtzaperle is causing trouble at the police station, claiming he has been reported missing multiple times; he has now returned and asks the police to stop looking for him. However, when the police close the case, they discover no record of the missing person report. Chief of Police P?lden is on vacation, and his female colleague Sonja calls for help: A man named Holtzaperle is causing trouble at the police station, claiming he has been reported missing multiple times; he has now returned and asks the police to stop looking for him. However, when the police close the case, they discover no record of the missing person report. P?lden finds Holtzaperle and tries to interview him to conduct an investigation, but the man slips away unnoticed during the conversation. Meanwhile, he also tries to evade P?lden while secretly following him. Many puzzling events follow: The man inexplicably knocks a woman down at the train station; He himself gets beaten up in the park; He sits on a tram, drinking beer and aimlessly riding around; He goes to sleep with his girlfriend in the middle of the night. Later, the woman he was infatuated with dies in bed. Was it Holtzaperle who killed her, or was there another reason? Chief of Police P?lden works tirelessly and uses his vacation to thoroughly investigate. In the end, he catches Holtzaperle, and the truth comes to light.