Garden of Death

A dead samurai, a Japanese beauty and one accidental young detective...

It is the end of May 1962, and the accidental detective Ota Fink – a lathe operator in his day job – is dragged into another case by the head waiter of a well-known pub on the border of Vinohrady and Žižkov. One of the local regulars, Bohouš Radýř, is locked up in Pankrác prison for a crime of passion, which apparently is not like him at all.

Allotment gardener Jindřich Lehocký, known as the Samurai, was found in his cabin with a Japanese sword plunged into his stomach. Could it have been suicide instead, a classic hara-kiri? And if so, wouldn't it have been easier to simply drown with a weight tied to his leg, just like Alois Krsek, a cheerful bloke who certainly had no reason to take his own life? Is the peak of the Matterhorn and the mysterious Japanese Hayashi Kuroshiva somehow connected to it all?

To make this already tangled case even more complicated, the seductive Janina enters the scene. A gang of villains made up of the Dustman, Mobutu, Limpy, Squirrel and the Clinker want to squeeze some kind of secret out of her. Meanwhile, a strange Japanese garden on Císařský Island, associated with an old tale, remains completely silent...