A curious pharmacist. A dead guild master. A betrayal that shakes the whole of Cologne. During a visit to the guild house, the young pharmacist Adelina discovers the badly battered corpse of a young woman. Shortly afterwards, her fiancé, a guild master, disappears. Everyone assumes it was an act of jealousy - until he too is found dead. Adelina, however, has other things on her mind than solving this case. But then coins from the patricians' bribes to the guilds turn up at her house and Adelina is suspected of having betrayed the city of Cologne ...
