The Allgäu is undoubtedly a beautiful region. But sometimes a change is good. This also applies to the best-known author duo in this region: After twelve crime novels, Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr have invented a new series hero in Inspector Kluftinger. In contrast to the always grumbling cheese spaetzle fan, Guillaume Lipaire prefers to avoid the police because of various scams. And in "The Incorrigibles - The Big Coup of Monsieur Lipaire" he doesn't pull off his big coup...
"We would like to emphasize that there is nothing to see here." It sounds strange at first, the capitalized sentence at the entrance to the Hammerschmiede clay pit in Pforzen (Ostallgäu). But the statement is actually true. Of "Udo" Danuvius guggenmosi, the eleven and a half million year old, upright humanmonkeys or any other of the 134 vertebrate species discovered here, there is nothing to see, not the smallest bone. Instead, journalists trudge through sticky clay together with the author...