The Story of the Cat and the Pipe

Losing your life in the service of the Habsburg monarchy's financial guard could be rather easy, and it didn't just have to be an enraged smuggler whose business had been thwarted. For Financial Guard Inspector Plischke, one of his former subordinates re-enters his life. However, he is not pleased about it, because someone has shot Moritz Hilbert. His fiancée, the once-beautiful Miss Nora, is not satisfied with the assertion that such things can happen in the line of duty, and she becomes Plischke's valued—albeit unofficial—collaborator. And then there is another pipe and a mysterious cat.