Anika von Vaszáry (Schröder)

It is incredible how a police inspector can dare to turn a gala performance at the Konzerthaus Berlin into a tribunal in order to arrest the conductor Peter Graf as a murderer and the young Hungarian violinist Anika as his accomplice. This scandal can only be stopped by the swift intervention of the defense lawyer Prof. Schütze, who happens to be present. However, before he can call the witnesses he has promised to exonerate, there is a rampage on the podium in which the pianist Rosa-Maria Parlotti is shot dead and the violinist Anika is shot. But because Anika manages to strangle the assassin, a police inspector wants to arrest her as the murderer, but she is able to prevent this by fleeing across Berlin. Peter Graf proves to be her saving angel.
Naturally, the police try to solve the crime, but in doing so they come across a web of pseudonyms, deceptions and intrigues. It is only after the pianist's death that it emerges that she was in fact the Hungarian violinist Sanda von Vaszáry, who married the artistic director Jan-Pieter van den Brugg after her alleged accidental death, without having divorced the Hungarian Major Frederik Prince von Vaszáry; Anika is her daughter.
But with Peter Graf's findings, the police manage to uncover the background to the killing spree and identify the perpetrator as the director's mistress, who had been active as a murderer in Paris years before. But this Dorothee was in a relationship with the very inspector Marco who wanted to arrest Anika as the murderer after the killing spree and has now disappeared. As a result, the entire investigation into the murder becomes a race against time, which is ultimately decided by this Marco in his favor.

Reading sample

Anika from Vaszáry
The rampage at the Konzerthaus in Berlin - a melodramatic criminal case

Ernst-Lutz Schröder, paperback, 416 pages, 14,80€