"Keltische Knochen/Gedelöcke: Erzählungen" by Wilhelm Raabe is a novella written in 1864. Two quarrelsome North German scholars travel to Austria with a criminal plan: to steal Celtic antiquities from a museum high above Hallstatt. Their theft is undermined not by the authorities, but by their own petty rivalry and inability to cooperate. As they flee with their loot, each spitefully discards the other's stolen treasures in revenge, leaving them empty-handed while their stolen artifacts are recovered piece by piece. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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