THE SPOKE FREIDRICH GLAUSER
Stuber who was once a Detective Chief Inspector but who now carries the rank of Sergeant in the Bern police department has come to a lovely hotel in the Canton of Thurgau . He and his wife have come here to take part in the wedding of their daughter to Albert who is also a young policeman.
During the evening of the wedding a young man is found dead in the back garden of the hotel. Anni the landlady of the hotel, a former sweetheart of Stuber's when he was in school, asks him to take care of the situation. Stuber feels sorry for Anni who has an invalid husband and so runs the hotel all by herself. She tells him news of this kind will ruin the reputation of the hotel. Stuber has the body carried to the basement and he finds the man has been murdered in a most ingenious fashion by a sharpened bicycle spoke that has been cunningly buried in the torso of the corpse.
The Sergeant realizes at once that suspicion will fall on the man who operates a bicycle repair shop adjacent to the hotel. . He is a somewhat an unusual man with an affinity for animals and has a reputation as a local lothario despite the fact that he is not particularly handsome or particularly young. Stuber actually finds him sleeping with his pig, and keeping his feet cleaner than his face.
But the local police and the Bern police are glad that Stuber is on the job because his reputation precedes him.It is not long before Sargeant Stuber has solved this puzzle in his inimitable style and the ramifications are far reaching. It was a good thing that this small wedding party came to be celebrated in this country hotel.
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