Un cadavre découvert dans la zone frontalière entre la Suisse et la France contraint un commissaire bâlois à enquêter avec son homologue alsacien. On a trouvé un cadavre dans la cabane d'un jardin ouvrier de Bâle. Le défunt a été sauvagement assassiné : tué par balle, il a ensuite été suspendu à la poutre du cabanon par un crochet de boucher. Confiée au commissaire Hunkeler de Bâle, l'affaire se complique d'emblée : si la plupart des propriétaires des parcelles habitent en effet à Bâle, le terrain où le meurtre a été commis est rattaché à la France. Hunkeler va donc devoir collaborer avec un collègue français. Très vite, les soupçons se portent sur un certain Cattaneo, qui jardine aussi dans le secteur. Hunkeler découvre pourtant un détail qui l'intrigue : la victime, Livius, qui s'appelait autrefois Schmidt, semble avoir un passé trouble lié à la Seconde Guerre mondiale…

Roni Beck is a man whose only thought in life is to become a professional comedian, but who due to his lack of success must live hidden in his mother's appartment in an old people's home, continuing to believe firmly that his day in the limelight will come. One day Serge Grätzer, the director of the old people's home, discovers Roni, and makes him help out with the work. Serge then decides to take a hand in Roni's career, embezzling money to launch the budding comedian. Once again however success eludes Roni. In the end Serge decides to fulfil his own secret longings to be on the stage. This leads to a row between the two men. Despite a reconciliation, they never again appear together on the stage. And when Serge's embezzlement is discovered he has to flee with the police at his heels and the home has to be closes. In the end, Roni persuades Mr. Klein, an eccentric old man who likes to play the stock market, to save the home with the millions he has stashed away.

Fifty years after graduating from school, Senta von Meissen invites eight former school friends to a class reunion at her castle. The table is set for ten people. One place remains empty: Teddy, the hostess's former school sweetheart, died in an accident on her graduation trip to the Rhine Falls. But was it really an accident? The evening turns into a murderous act of revenge.

1955 film by Kurt Früh

1989 film by Rolf Lyssy

Uli has been the tenant of the "Glunggen-farm" for two years. His wife Vreneli gave him two children and the couple is happy. But this year, the harvest looks bad and his landlord calls in the rent, as the old man urgently needs money to satisfy the demands of his son and stepson. Desperate to make ends meet, Uli fraudulently sells a cow knowing that she does not produce any milk. He is pursued in court but is acquitted. But then, the buyer curses him... and disaster promptly strikes.

1954 film by Franz Schnyder