Summary The clown Bock, main attraction of the Circus Metropol, is found murdered after the evening's show. Bock had recently started publishing his life story in a daily newspaper, heaping scorn on his colleagues and sometimes even exposing career-threatening secrets from their past, so that many wanted to see him gone. Or could the reason for his death be found in Bock's own past, his life as a nobleman which, together with his wife and daughter, he left behind to join the circus? Kommissar Bernard and Inspektor Mireux have more than enough suspects, even without the possibility that a jealous husband or boyfriend might be the killer, as the aging Casanova used his nightly performances to woo young women in the audience.

• Crime
• Thriller