Vienna 1903. A brutal murder is committed on the nightly Naschmarkt, the city's largest Viktualienmarkt. The victim: the young Countess Hermine von Hainisch-Hinterberg.
The press is making a lot of noise about the "Naschmarkt murder", especially the journalist Leo Goldblatt is putting pressure on the police. But Joseph Maria Nechyba, investigating inspector of the Imperial and Royal Police Agency, does not care much at first. The corpulent connoisseur prefers to devote himself to his physical well-being and his new love. Until another murder happens on the Naschmarkt ...

Gerhard Loibelsberger, born in Vienna in 1957, started a series of historical crime novels about the heavyweight Inspector Joseph Maria Nechyba in 2009 with the »Naschmarkt-Murden«. In 2010 "The Naschmarkt Murders" were nominated for the Leo Perutz Prize. In addition, the author's works have already been awarded the silver and gold HOMER literature prize. In 2017, the Italian thriller "In the Name of the Godfather" - as a sequel to the Venice thriller "Quadriga" - and the first Nechyba comic "The banker from the Naschmarkt" appeared. On Loibelsberger's 60th birthday, the poetry volume "Ants & Plants" was published as an e-book. In 2018, the sixth and final Nechyba novel »Schönbrunner Finale« and the poetry and short prose volume »Young Dummies« followed. In 2019 the short story volume »Morphium, Mokka, Mördergeschichten« was published.