Лучшие произведения Фрэнка Таллиса

Вена 1902 года. Столица блистательной Австро-Венгерской империи. Здесь процветает наука и искусство, творят великие писатели, композиторы и философы, покоряют сердца изысканные светские дамы и прекрасные куртизанки. Но теперь на самый красивый и веселый город Европы пала мрачная тень смерти... Загадочная девушка-медиум безжалостно убита в запертой изнутри комнате. Таинственная записка, оставленная на месте преступления, приписывает убийство сверхъестественным силам. Полиция теряется в догадках. И тогда за расследование берется молодой психоаналитик Макс Либерман, любимый ученик Зигмунда Фрейда, человек, уверенный в своем умении читать…

Vienna, 1903. Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches, the decapitated body of a monk is found. Then, the remains of a municipal councillor are discovered in the grounds of another church - his head also ripped from his body. Both men were rabid anti-Semites, and suspicions fall on Vienna's close-knit community of Hasidic Jews. In a city riven by racial tensions and extremism, the situation is potentially explosive. Detective Inspector Rheinhardt turns to his trusted friend, the young psychoanalyst Doctor Max Liebermann, for assistance. As the investigation progresses, Liebermann is drawn into the world of Jewish mysticism.…

Vienna, 1903. An operatic diva, Ida Rosenkrantz, is found dead in her luxurious villa. It appears that she has taken an overdose of morphine, but a broken rib, discovered during autopsy, suggests other and more sinister possibilities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt seeks the assistance of his young 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,…