The Prague Mysteries

An experienced Austro-Hungarian criminologist is assigned to investigate a series of murders around Prague and its surrounding suburbs.
On January 1, 1922, the so-called Greater Prague was established. The surrounding urban areas and nearby villages, forests, factories and farms were made part of Greater Prague. Prague’s new districts were less rich and glamorous than the center and brought to the capital specific forms of crime, which began to be investigated by the Prague State Police instead of the local policemen. And just as the police officers replaced the gendarmerie, detectives accustomed to inner Prague had to fight crime in a whole new field - instead of going to the cobbled streets and cafes, they set out on a muddy path between farms and village cottages. Chief Inspector Budik, an ambitious man, struggles when political pressure drives him to be responsible for the lowly mud-spattered suburbs and not the posh, bustling center. Together with his colleagues, Inspector Havlik and Detective Martin Novacek, he fights crime in a slightly different environment than he is used to. The crime stories featured in The Prague Mysteries are inspired by real-life cases from the period.