Es ist eine anerkannte Tatsache, dass ein Polizist auf Urlaub unweigerlich eine Leiche im Schrank findet. Doch Commander Sam Vimes von der Ankh-Morpork City Watch stolpert nicht nur über eine Leiche, es sind viele, sehr, sehr viele. Eigentlich kein Problem für Sam, doch er ist nicht im Dienst, er ist außerhalb seines Zuständigkeitsbereichs und er neigt zu gedanklichen Ausfällen.

Informationen zum Autor Terry Pratchett Klappentext It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all... Zusammenfassung It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

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Terry Pratchett

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all...