Karel Capek (1890-1938) is one of the few literary greats whose works have lost none of their readability even three quarters of a century after they were written. Of all his novels, prose and brilliant feuilletons, Tales from the First and Second Pockets are among the best. Mostly detective stories, whose heroes are police commissioners, agents, constables, gendarmes, but also marriage fraudsters, criminals and fanatical collectors, bring much more than it seems at first glance. Capek applied all aspects of his exceptional talent in them.