Tue, Oct 19, 2010
Devoted butler Arthur finds countess von Falkenberg fatally stabbed at her desk in the castle. He shortly returned from a walk with her sister Lucia, who is in wheelchair since a terrible accident she blames her for left Lucia in a wheelchair instead of starring on stage. The countess was generally disliked, as Sven and Korbinian keep hearing from everyone, including young maid Colette Messner and her hunky lover, cheeky forester Sebastian Dorfler, who rather enjoyed the countess trying to seduce her, unlike the part-time castle stable-master Toni Wallner, who was refused resigning from that job and her attentions to entertain his lover, under threat of cancel his family's farm tenancy. Meanwhile Sven is amused by stuck-up accountant Ortmann needing his help to entertain her haughty, naive mother and her latest prospective lover as sailing yacht owner.
Tue, Nov 9, 2010
Flirtatious golf instructor Tobias Kühn was clobbered to death by the links. The killer left shoe-prints. He was recently fired by the club owners, Klaus and Angela Habach, who claim popular Kühn embezzled.Club manager Hermann Fuchs points Hansen and Hofer to investor Alois Schäfer, who recently owed with Kühn for an affair with his wife Martina Schäfer. Both men were invested in a golf hotel on land that was recently found problematically polluted. Mystery money going to Kühn suggests he blackmailed his employer. Korbinian finds a last clue suggesting the murder was more means then target. Meanwhile, Stockl buzzes about flowers delivered without clear destination.
Tue, Dec 14, 2010
Sculptor Hollmann is fatally spine-crushed in his workshop by his latest work, but also his fight injuries. The concrete right hand was part of a giant Christ, originally conceived by colleague Benedikt Grasser, which he was sculpting in Ganting, patronized by mayor Karl Schretzmayr -whose wife had an affair with him- and contractor Volker Feisler. It offended Bible fanatic Roswitha Schober. Model was actor Antonio Moser, whom Hollman considered too frail by modern insights.
Tue, Jan 4, 2011
Harald Gremm was fatally stabbed in his discotheque with a jagged diving blade. The previous night he battered with his former employer, Max Burger. Having dropped out of law school in police chief Achziger's time, Harald won ten out of twelve recent trials. Fresh widow Juliane denies the anonymously (allegedly by plummer Dirk Stegner, who was condemned to hefty damages) reported affair he planned to divorce her for, having engaged PI Torsten Gosch to no avail. Micki is not amused Stockle ascribes his recent bad luck to his horoscope, actually just last week's.
Tue, Jan 18, 2011
Christian Lind is about to leave for his new Hamburg job, but agrees to stay a few days till his exchange-successor Sven Hansens arrives in Rosenheim and meanwhile solve a last murder case with Korbinian, while Marie insists on a sendoff dinner. Pharm firm co-owner founding manager Tauber's naked corpse was found in bed at the apartment he officially uses when working late, in fact a love nest for sequential affairs, which fresh widow Cosima claims to be a case of mutual sexual freedom, but she risked to end up poor as he considered a divorce. The cause of death was 'reverse poisoning in slices': replacing is vital cardiac medicine with placebos, which takes weeks, impossible to time. Among the adultery partners are his sole-succeeding business partner's wife and Silvia Grabowski, equally 'ambitious' wife of rising executive Hajo, but the infidelity doesn't end there.
Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Two of the three members of the blind tasting jury in a hotel's cocktail mixing contest die from drinking Norbert Prinz's creation. Is third juror Ralph Kipplinger, husband of victim Lore, prime suspect or potentially still a target, having stepped out from a breather due to a mild asthma attack, which he could fake, to punish her adultery with famous Norbert Prinz? What about his jealous ex Sabine Mehringer? "Times Square"-publican Jo noticed victim Sandmann and sponsoring host Carsten Roessler argue bitterly before the event. Hofer and Hansen, whose well-started Caribbean regatta was wrecked by a storm, investigate. Precinct secretary Stockl and controller Ortmann plot about expenses.
Tue, Feb 1, 2011
Commissioner Florian Prantl returns as interim welcomed by new colleagues, even a cake which Stockel planned to bill as reception expenses, but accountant Ortmann warns that's against rules. His first case is the stabbing at her weekend cabin of Elke Willmers, who runs an inherited shipping firm tyrannically. Husband Wilhelm Nolte is disrespected and she planned a divorce. Both employee Walter Zengler, a senior with expensive taste who discovered the corpse, and Fritz Hübner, whom she fired and was about to report to the police for clandestine extra cargoes, lack alibis, and the one employee Elke Willmers eagerly offered for Nolte proves fake.
Tue, Feb 8, 2011
Keyboard maker and tuner Salome Adler is found by apprentice , skull-smashed in her workshop. Separated husband Gernot couldn't buy out her half of the grand house, but remains sole heir. Rising concert pianist and weekly tuning client Johannes Heidersberger hides his affair with her, notably from his domineering mother. Hansen and Florian Prantl wrestle with the atypical clue, a partial music score manuscript page with a cryptic post-it, which chief Gert Achtziger shows to a music professor after Classical music shop owner August Weimar claims he can't identify it.
Tue, Feb 15, 2011
Managing driving school owner Hauser is murdered. The relationship with his brother Oliver wasn't nearly as harmonious as he pretends, as he was considered a squandering loser, especially by sister in law Nina. His accounts are doctored, but he also stole clients from competitor Erwin Nimbach by offering a 'flexible' interpretation of the rules, so as to admit people who should be excluded.
Tue, Feb 22, 2011
Retired dance school owner S. is asphyxiated on bed at night with a cushion, in the building he inherited after his partner was murdered right there years ago in the very same apartment. Sven an Florian check out the tenants, who all had motives to want him dead, for one as he planned to sell the building if he got rid of all of them, including the nosy petty thief who ransacked his apartment while discovering the corps with the new janitor. Lover Martina Lembach dumped him for an even richer man, according to their investment adviser, a large sum seems missing.
Tue, Mar 1, 2011
Managing furniture shop owner Dillinger was skull-smashed in his show room. The workaholic was a bully boss, even for his sister Andrea , who didn't inherit from their father, but is now his sole heir. One employee was fired, another threatened him for belittling his wife to tears. Meanwhile Florian Prantl's lies may bite him in the arse as his girl friend, farmer Irmgard 'Irmy' Hasenrieder, arrives for a surprise visit and Stockle shows her the way to his host Maria Hofer, whom he referred to as cripple crone.
Tue, Mar 15, 2011
A bully wood trader is murdered at home. He was impossible to please, regularly threatened with the sack and recently fired someone for real. There was a doubly adulterous affair. His son and deputy manager already arranged for another job next month, and won't inherit any share since recent testament in favor of his stepmother. The sales manager took bribes to pay a quality supplier above the going rate. Meanwhile Florian Prantl's missing expenses declaration delays the quarterly precinct accounts and landed in a confidential files pile to be shred.
Tue, Mar 22, 2011
Music academy janitor Rudi Grass -who has an alibi- finds the corpse of pianist Nikolaus 'Niki' Waldorf, who was skull-smashed with a tuning hammer. He was expected to win the contest for a scholarship in New York. Remaining top candidates and Gerry Polster -with alibis- and Rudi's son Stephan Grassl, recently come into mystery money, whom caterer Elisabeth Kiermeier's daughter Chantal Kiermeier dumped recently for Nikolaus, whom employee ?Stephan threatened for bothering her, and after his alibi falls through claims to have found Niki dead. Niki blackmailed contest chief Bernd Völz.
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
Exclusive club president Joseph was strangled by nightfall after drinks at their reserved tavern bench. Achtziger assigns unenthusiastic Korbinian instead to mentor with willing Stockl- the psychology internship of their ministry supervisor Lausekönig's niece Sophie Kühn, so Hansen investigates with fraud detective Tobias Hartl. Prime suspect is Markus Erbacher, who challenged Joseph at the upcoming presidency (re)election. Robert Zenker and Vinzenz Kolb were rejected as new members, while desperately in need of such access to rich clients for their recently founded law firm in debt.
Tue, Apr 5, 2011
Skull-smashed building materials market owner Joseph Stuller is found by theft-suspected employee Franz Eicher and his own daughter Julia. The cash earnings were taken from the safe, Joseph had the only key. Tobias Hartl helps Hansen investigate, as Korbianian is still stuck with Sophie Kühn but reports sick preferring odd farm jobs, yet can't shake the psychology student. Weaker competitor Thomas Ohlmüller's merger plans ended in a row, but his playboy son Thomas remains engaged to Julia, whom he planned to disinherit. Ohlmüller's employee Florian Happach received mystery payments from Joseph to spy on Thomas.
Tue, Apr 12, 2011
Brilliant, professionally paid choir master Tim Haubig was fatally skull-smashed with the cup his otherwise amateur choir just won in Verona. Sven and Korbinian loo into the board, run by sponsoring chairman Friedrich Dollinger, and find secret gifts, blackmail as well as a are original Monteverdi score print. Chief Achziger discovered the corpse after bringing him a gift basket from his counterpart in Verona, where the choir won a prize for his music academy, but Ortmann freezes the distribution of goodies until Munich rules about possible bribery suspicions.