The Versegy Case

The Budapest police are visited by a nervous and very excited Sandor Versegy, a professor who claims he was robbed of securities worth 150,000 gulden and most of his wife’s jewelry. All the evidence the police collect make it appear that Versegy robbed himself so he could claim the insurance. But Detective Richard Plaut, after a trip to Vienna, thinks otherwise, even after the professor seems to admit his own guilt by committing suicide.

An investigation of theft in Hungary in the late 19th century leads the investigator to suspect the very professor whose safe was robbed. He also suspects him to be off his rocker.

A detective looking into a robbery in Hungary during the 1800s starts to think the professor who got his safe stolen from might be the real thief. The detective also thinks the professor has lost his mind.