Why did Countess Bothmer commit all these little thefts? Is the archive thief Dr. Hauck a document fetishist? Did Health Councilor Boehme kill all his wives? And was Mrs. Huhn allowed to slap Mrs. Knill for claiming she had something to do with her husband, Mr. Knill? From defamation lawsuits among neighbors, inheritance disputes in high society, gambling fraud, perjury trials, uncovered corruption, and brilliant forgeries to suspicions of spousal murder, shot sons, deadly jealousy dramas, and weary judges: Sling's court reports take you right into life as it unfolds before the courts, right into the world of the 1920s. The abbreviation Sling represented a novel form of reporting characterized by a humane sense of humor, making its creator one of the most famous reporters.