This work is presented either as a novel or as a collection of stories, or as a cycle about the chief police inspector, Oliver Rator. Mr. Oliver Rator spoke very little—but he thought a lot.
He was a tall, broad-shouldered man with a large, expressionless face. His conversation partners often got the impression that he didn’t believe a single word they said. But under the influence of his suggestive silence, criminals who had such obvious alibis that their arrest seemed ridiculous would often lose their composure—and confess everything.