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Death on the Slopes - An Alpine Crime Story By Nicola Förg Crime & Thriller How it all began: Irmi Mangold and Kathi Reindl's first case by Alpine crime expert Nicola Förg This Sunday, Garmisch-Partenkirchen detective Irmi Mangold actually imagined it differently. She was in the forest chopping wood when she received an urgent call - a dead man had been found on the Kandahar Slope. The man's clothing was particularly bizarre, a ski suit with a World Cup start number from 1978. His identity was soon established: Ernst Buchwieser was a sports teacher at the Ettal monastery boarding school and his unconventional views caused controversy almost everywhere. As an opponent of the expansion of the slopes for the upcoming 2011 Ski World Cup, he was a red rag to many. Should he therefore be silenced? And what is the story behind the strange outfit? During their investigation, the clever Irmi Mangold and her young colleague Kathi Reindl take on several Garmisch dignitaries and discover that behind the postcard idyll there are plenty of motives for murder...