âA bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.â The words of Inspector TĆŻma sound like theyâre from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story. A pair of detectives, counterfeit medicine, the high-society setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel, and OldĆich NovĂœ as the aging hotel manager Kraus.