From the GDR series "Two Crime Novels," two more super-exciting cases. Karl Heinz Berger's detectives aren't superheroes, but flesh-and-blood men, albeit with a less than spotless past. "Whitewashed Graves": The shared past of teacher Fritz Krüger and actor Paul Schulte, who meet again 20 years later during a spa stay, contains enough tinder to trigger an act of violence. Rivalry with a woman led to the end of their friendship back then. When Schulte's wife, a former friend of the teacher, also arrives at the same spa town, it becomes clear: Krüger's wounds from that time are still raw. And so, suspicion falls on him first when the other man is found dead... "Premiere in N." The end of a friendship is also the subject of the second story in this volume. The violent death of playwright Carl Schanzer throws psychiatrist Dr. Gammler off balance in his life. Because Carl wasn't someone whose death one simply acknowledges and then moves on. The police, however, apparently harbor doubts about the sincerity of his grief and suspect him... (Quote from the back cover of the book, paperback, 318 pages, Neues Leben Publishing House, Berlin, 1st edition, 1985)