 Lamont and Tom both share a passion for solving murders without the aid of policemen, and Tom correctly deduces that Friedrich Hasselgard, Marita's brother, was, in fact, Marita's murderer.Lamont then shares with Tom a case of his own- that of Jeanine Thielman, who Lamont believes was murdered by a man named Anton Goetz, her lover, when she refused to continue seeing him.After getting to know each other, Tom departs from Lamont's house, taking Lamont's journal with him.