The case of the missing hook

Audiobook The Case of the Missing Hook with an unusual detective team

More cases of an unconventional detective party, which consists of a tramp, Waterman, an amateur detective nicknamed Harosh and Jan Sladký, a captain of the Crime Squad, nicknamed Kozina, which readers should have got to know in the author's previous book, The Case of the Stray Fisherman (Beletris, 2017).

The attractiveness and uniqueness of the included detective stories is once again enhanced by their setting in a purely Czech environment of tramps and watermen. In the first story, The African, the dark past and its reverberations are interwoven into the summer wanderings of a tramp gang, joined by a returning tramp emigrant from the black continent.

The search for the motives of old and new murders brings thrilling suspense and surprising revelations to a seemingly ordinary plot. The shocking discovery of a dead paddler in a completely unexpected place in the short story that gives the book its title, then brings the reader into a brilliantly depicted paddling world, and there is no shortage of plot twists and unexpected situations here either. The book concludes with a short, almost anecdotal narrative with a detective plot and a completely untypical denouement.