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Synopsis
Small bookbox , english and german audio: An old woman is killed, but then the killer soon meets his death. The lakeside house also draws Frank Ventura, (Cristea Avram) a private investigator, to the lake in northeast Italy, where two fisherman, Simon (Claudio Camaso) and Paulo (Leopoldo Trieste) are suspected of the woman's death. The woman is an heiress who is important to Frank's employers. Four friends, Brunhilda, (Brigitte Skay) Bobby, (Guido Boccaccini) Denise (Paola Rubens) and Robert (Roberto Bonnani) arrive at an abandoned house near the lake for a party, but unknowingly are close to the house where the deaths occurred. They party into the night, unaware of the man secretly watching them. Bored, Hilda decides to go swimming out in the bay while everyone else sneaks into a house nearby. While swimming, she unearths a dead man in the lake and takes off back to the house, but everyone is at the second house. She is then killed by an unknown killer and remains undiscovered. Paul decides to share his investigation in the murder with his friend Albert, (Luigi Pistilli) who follows along with the daughter of the murdered man, Renata (Claudine Auger) and a tarot card reader, Anna, (Laura Betti) and finds that the father had an illegitimate son who might be the mysterious killer. The first killer (Giovanni Nuvoletti) winds up on Simon's boat, who is Rennie's father. She wanders off to collect her head, but stumbles onto the dead friends and the killer. Soon, the true identity of the killer is revealed and it's reason for the murders.