Death and the Maiden

Vienna 1903. An operatic diva, Ida Rosenkrantz, is found dead in her villa and her broken rib suggests some sinister possibilites. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt seeks the assistance of his friend, the psychoanalyst Dr Max Liebermann, and they begin their inquiries at Vienna's majestic opera house, where its director, Gustav Mahler, is struggling to maintain a pure artistic vision while threatened on all sides by pompous bureaucrats, vainglorious singers, and a hostile press. When the demagogue Mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, becomes the prime suspect - with an election only months away - the Rosenkrantz case becomes politically explosive...

Product details

• Authors: Frank Tallis
• Publisher: Century Hutchinson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9781846053573
• ISBN: 978-1-84605-357-3
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Series: The Century; The Liebermann Papers; Max Liebermann; Max Liebermann; Liebermann Papers; Max Liebermann / The Liebermann Papers / Vienna Blood
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature