Stern 1 — The Undertaker the Vagrant & the Assassin

• Script: Frédéric Maffre
• Art: Julien Maffre
• Translation Publisher: Europe Comics
• Original Publisher: Dargaud
• Genre: Western

1880. Kansas. Elijah Stern, the local undertaker, leads a calm and solitary life, until one day he is asked to carry out an autopsy on a man found dead in a brothel. Taking on the role of forensic pathologist, he discovers that the man had not died of natural causes and finds himself involved, against his better wishes, in the middle of a bonafide investigation. But Stern has no idea that the key to this case lies in his own past…