Hermann Kappes 19th Fall. A year after the end of the war, there is widespread hardship in the largely destroyed Berlin. In late summer 1946, Alfred Knispel and his daughter Sonja stumble upon a male corpse while mushroom hunting in the Schöneicher Forest. It is evident that the murdered man is a returned prisoner of war. But how is Commissioner Hermann Kappe supposed to determine his identity in the face of thousands of missing persons? And how can he find the murderer at a time when daily concerns about the essentials dominate people's lives? It is only when he later identifies a man whose path crossed with that of the victim during captivity that Kappe begins to sense the background of the bloody deed. It happened in Berlin, the grand chain novel about Commissioner Hermann Kappe, reflects the Berlin of the 20th century through fictional criminal cases. Jan Eik.