Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

A bored housewife a husband who married her for show and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman The words of Inspector Tůma sound like theyre from a European melodrama but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story A pair of detectives counterfeit medicine the highsociety setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel and Oldřich Nový as the aging hotel manager Kraus