A distressed artist comes to p.i. Kayankaya for help. His girlfriend has been kidnapped, a Thai girl. Kayankaya's raised eyebrow brings protestations of love. He confronts obstructive racist officials and corrupt cops in his trawl through the immigration offices and brothels of Frankfurt. It seems that young women fugitives and asylum seekers are disappearing into the Frankfurt night.

It all begins with a favour to a friend. Kayankaya's and Slibulsky's sole intention is to help restaurant owner Romario to get rid of two thugs who are blackmailing him for protection money. Then, suddenly, two strange, white-powdered bodies are found in Romarios's restaurant. Kayankaya cannot stop thinking about the bodies. He embarks on a search for their identity – and finds himself the victim of a search. By a Mafia gang about whose origins and leader no-one is sure. The only certain thing is that it is the most brutal and uncompromising group of gangsters ever known to have operated in the Frankfurt red-light district. ›Kismet‹ is about organised crime and war profiteers, about the stupidity of nationalism and the madness of the war in Yugoslavia, about »home« in the best and worst senses of the word. And about the longing for a great love. An unusual and rousing story, with precise, colourful milieu descriptions, breath-taking dialogue, fantastic wit: Jakob Arjouni at his best.

The series with the Frankfurt-based private detective Kemal Kayankaya has been established long ago as a classic amongst crime literature, thanks to deadpan humour, sparkling dialogues and pointed remarks. All five novels are now available in one volume: ›Happy Birthday, Turk!‹ ›More Beer‹ ›One Man, One Murder‹ ›Kismet‹ ›Brother Kemal‹

Valerie de Chavannes, a financier's daughter, summons private investigator Kemal Kayankaya to her villa in Frankfurt's diplomats' quarter and commissions him to find her missing sixteen-year-old daughter Marieke. She is alleged to be with an older man who is posing as an artist. To Kayankaya, it seems like a simple case: an upper class girl with a thirst for adventure. Then another simple case turns up: The Maier Publishing House believes it needs to protect author Malik Rashid from attacks by religious fanatics at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Rashid has written a novel about, amongst other things, attitudes towards homosexuality in an Arabic country. Kayankaya is hired to be Rashid's bodyguard for three days. The two cases seem to be straightforward, but together they lead to murder, rape and abduction. And then Kayankaya comes under suspicion of being a contract killer for hire.