It's a good thing I'm not a hangman.

An adventure detective story set in Renaissance Prague. The novel is based on the play of the same name by the popular author Vlastimil Vondruška. The main heroes are a seemingly disparate trio - the Old Town bailiff Jan, an executioner and a proficient theology student. The town executioner, who is all too happy to look at the bottom of a wine glass, witnesses a murder in the middle of the night. The perpetrator is an unknown man wearing a hat with a feather, but the identity of the victim is stranger - it is the merchant Pelech, who was supposed to have been buried a few days ago. Before the speedster can follow the first lead, more murders and a robbery occur at the town hall. Fortunately, the town crier's bright nephew Peter is here...