Willi Kraus, the celebrated WWI hero and detective, returns in this prequel to the critically acclaimed The Sleepwalkers with the story of how he became the most famous Jewish Detective in Germany in the fading days of the Weimar Republic.
On the same day that the stock market crashes in New York in 1929, the dark underside of Berlin flushes to the surface in the form of a burlap sack spewed by floodwaters from the city sewer system. What it contains calls Jewish Detective Willi Kraus to investigate perhaps the most vicious criminal heretofore known.