Dr. Maximilian Seiler

Dr Maximilian Seiler, forty-five, a lieutenant colonel with the Vienna police, arrives at a crime scene as if it were a premiere rather than a murder. Formal, precise, strategic.

A top-tier hobby cook, hobby pilot, Austropop, and a suit that looks a little too formal for every corpse. As a rule he speaks in elevated German. In haste, anger or after »two« schnapps, the deepest Viennese slips through, always with dry wit. Then you finally know: he is from Vienna too.

His Kaiserschmarrn is the young cook’s original recipe, neatly noted. He mentions the almond variation and stays with what matters.