of Jewish folktales and worldly Yiddish detective-stories about "Max Spitzkopf" and his assistant "Fuchs". He read Russian, including Dostoyevsky's Crime...

Hearts was the only King with a bushy beard. The Spitz was also called Spitzkopf. The Toller Hund means "mad dog" and may likewise be derived from the...

an elevation of 2,553 metres (8,376 ft) in the valley opposite of the Spitzkopf (2,346 metres (7,697 ft). Bschlabs' population is decreasing along with...