The Gravedigger and the Murder in the Crypt (The Gravedigger Series 3)

The most unusual detective duo in Vienna is back on the hunt for a murderer. Vienna, 1895: In the crypt beneath St. Stephen's Cathedral, tourists discover a male corpse among bones and skulls: his face twisted in horror, otherwise intact. Did the man die of fear? What could have panicked him so much? While spiritualism is rampant in late 19th-century Vienna, with séances held on every corner, the deceased—a scholar—advocated for the natural sciences and exposed frauds. Did he get burned in the process? Alongside the investigations led by Leopold von Herzfeldt, the gravedigger Augustin Rothmayer is alerted to something else by his adopted daughter Anna: children are repeatedly disappearing from the city's orphanage. Is someone preying on the vulnerable, or is there really a ghost haunting the Danube metropolis? Narrator Hans Jürgen Stockerl makes the third installment of the gravedigger series a gripping listening experience.