Spuren eines Verbrechens

Fisher, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe following a 13-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of the treatise known as "The Component of Crime", asks him to resolve a number of killings including lottery ticket retailers. Led through the ideas help with within the book, Fischer retraces the steps of the suspect, Harry Gray, as recorded inside a three-year-old police surveillance report.