Game of a Handsome Dragoon

In a suburban villa, a woman of means named Zuzánková is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Libeň neighbourhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. After the testimony of Zuzánková's neighbour, Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter Kamilka, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragičová. All his findings – among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a decent amount of money in his bedside table – convince the superintendent that he is following the right lead, especially when Rudi refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder. The superintendent moreover learns that his Kamilka is pregnant by Rudi. Upon revealing this to Vacátko, the police councilman appoints detective Brůžek to follow Rudi in secret. Brůžek finds out with little effort that Rudi has not got only Kamilka pregnant but several other trusting girls, as well. Rudi thus delivers customers to Mrs Dragičová who, for a considerable charge, then helps the girls terminate the unwanted pregnancies and shares the income with the culprit. The person who leads the police to the real murderer is Mrs Zdychyncová. She reveals to Police Councilman Vacátko that Mrs Zuzánková had a nephew named Pepa who ran away and joined the circus – and it was on the very day of the murder that Circus Colorado was passing by. Pepa confesses to his crime under the weight of evidence. Rudi is getting married, but his bride is an old and ugly woman. "The mills of God...", Police Councilman Vacátko comments dryly on his wedding.