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Mortal Mischief

Frank Tallis

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English
Arrow
03 April 2006
Series: Vienna Blood
'Holmes meets Freud in this enjoyable whodunnit' Guardian

The hit novels behind the major new TV series Vienna Blood

Vienna, at the turn of the century.

Philosophy, science and art are flourishing. Coffee shops are full of the latest cultural and political theories. The new field of psychoanalysis, formed in the wake of Freud, is just beginning to make itself heard.

And a woman is dead.

Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst, and friend to Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt. Rheinhardt, though hard-working, lacks Liebermann's insights and forensic eye - and so Liebermann is called upon to help with police investigations surrounding the death of a beautiful young medium, in what seems at first to be supernatural circumstances.

While Liebermann attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery, he also must decide whether he is to follow his father's advice and marry the beautiful but reserved Clara. But the personal and the professional cannot be wholly separated, and the darkness of Liebermann's case threatens to swallow his entire life.
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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   330g
ISBN:   9780099471288
ISBN 10:   0099471280
Series:   Vienna Blood
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Frank Tallis is a writer and practising clinical psychologist in Harley Street. In 1999 he received a Writers' Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 2000 he won the New London Writers' Award (London Arts Board). Love Sick is also published by Century. Frank lives and works in London.

Reviews for Mortal Mischief

An intriguing, impressive achievement - puts the psychological back into crime and written by a real expert -- Oliver James Smart detection and a mouthwatering view of Viennese cafe society ... good prospects for the Liebermann series, of which this is book number one * Literary Review * An unusual and excellent murder mystery * Bernard Knight, former home office pathologist * Frank Tallis's new max Liebermann series is off to a flying start with its location, a turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna torn between mysticism and rationalism, liberalism and anti-Semitism... a cracker. * Observer *


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