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commissioner was starting to know his eclectic neighbor, perhaps, only now, after he had died, but from the few details of his life that had managed to emerge in those few hours, the peculiarity of the existence of a great musician, was clear enough. Although he had avoided mentioning it to his colleagues, it happened already a couple of times during the day that Germano, in fact, believed he knew what was going to happen, but in both the circumstances he had to change his mind; the facts in question were not details of such an importance, if seen in the general context of the investigation, but enough to make the commissioner realize that he dad to prepare himself to further revelations and surprises once he would have penetrated deeper into Brandenburg’s life.
    Germano’s thoughts gradually gave away to a sleep that lasted for at least a couple of hours, until he was awakened by the sharp blow of someone knocking on his door .
    “Come in”.
    The inspectors Piazza and Parisi came in and went back to sit on the same chairs they used before; by their looks, Germano realized that they had not come empty-handed.
    The first to break that silence was Parisi.
    “First of all, Commissioner, I proceeded to send those images to the specialists; I was also able to speak to some of them”.
    “And what do they say?”.
    “They say they'll try ... but we should not expect too much, the resolution of the camera is pretty poor as well as the fact that the sun was contrary”.
    “They can’t?”.
    “I don’t know, Vincent, they said they will try”.
    “I understand ... I guess there is something else you have to
    add ...”.
    “Yeah ... Alitalia has confirmed to me that Master Brandenburg has flown with them twice in the last year and ...”.
    The commissioner interrupted Parisi with a wave of his hand to ask the other inspector, Gianni Piazza, the exact dates of two phone calls the Master received from Germany.
    “The first was made August 12 th last year, Commissioner”.
    “Well, and the first flight was?”.
    “On September 1 st , Vincent; then, there was another one he took on February 27 th of this year; I’m not telling you where the two flights were headed to ... I guess you have already got it”.
    “Monaco of Bavaria?”
    “Yeah”.
    “Nothing to add, Piazza?”.
    “Yes, Commissioner, the German police called me a few minutes ago to update me on the user’s identity of the telephone from which the call left; the holder is Helena Singer, a resident of Monaco, in Kirchenstraße 11”.
    “Do we know anything about her?”.
    “Not yet, they didn’t tell me more on the phone; actually, I had the impression that they were hoping that the name itself told something to us ...”.
    “Yeah ... Meanwhile, let’s try something ... tomorrow morning, one of you will have to get in touch with the municipality of Grottaferrara in order to know if there are cameras shooting on the main road; I think it is traffic police’s jurisdiction, but it is better to ask both of them. After that, you will deal with the private citizens and businesses, anyone who has installed any video surveillance system must allow us to see the recordings; if someone starts to do the difficult, I'll make sure to have a written authorization by the Judicial for tomorrow morning, is that clear?”.
    The two inspectors nodded almost in unison and Germano hinted a smile.
    The commissioner then lit a cigarette and, almost immediately, resumed the conversation.
    “Another important thing to do is to investigate about the names written in this agenda that I have right now in my hands. I gave it a quick glance in the afternoon and I noticed that the Master used to write down only the times of the various lessons that he kept during the day and the names of his students, but not the last names if it was not strictly necessary, for instance when there were cases of homonymy; in this case, he used to add the first letter of the last name next to the name