Very long stairs

A MYSTERIOUS TALL MAN, A HIDDEN HUMAN HEAD AND A YOUNG ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE…

At the beginning of summer 1960, accidental detective Ota Fink – a turner by trade – gets caught up in solving another case. Marie, the wife of Mr Štechr, a waiter from the U Kryštofa Haranta z Polžic restaurant, has disappeared near their home on the Dlouhé schody steps.

Ota soon discovers that she was last seen right here, on the border of Vinohrad, Vršovice and Nusle, and so was Konvický, a well-known international football player.

Other strange circumstances, including the discovery of a buried human head in a cardboard box, suggest that a brutal killer is on the loose somewhere around the steps, which offer a far from romantic view of the Michle gas holder and Vršovice railway station.

Can Ota solve the mysterious disappearances and clear the beautiful Barbora Konvická of suspicion of murder? And what does the brooding tall man, the mysterious "phantom" of the Dlouhé schody steps, know about it all? Could he be the killer himself?