Ani u bezvýznamných lidiček bychom neměli podceňovat uraženou ješitnost. Právě takovou odezvu vyvolala atraktivní, vyzývavá žena, která souhlasila, že si vezme obyčejného úředníčka z účtárny, jen proto, aby se zapomnělo na její vztah k ženatému šéfovi. Naštvaný novomanžel, když se tuhle lest dozví, začne v tichosti a s téměř nehnutým obličejem chystat důmyslnou pomstu, která navíc může přinést i hmotný prospěch...

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.