Mortal Mischief

"We’re in 1902 Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire . When a medium is found shot in a room that has been locked from the inside, with no sign of a gun or even a bullet, it is tempting to treat it as a supernatural mystery. But Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt continues to look for a rational explanation, calling on his friend Dr Max Liebermann to help look for motives and build a profile of the murderer. The author, himself a psychologist, has made Dr Liebermann a student of Freud and an early practitioner of psychoanalysis. Early 20th-century Vienna, at the forefront of cultural and scientific development, is a fabulous setting for our music-loving detective and doctor duo to use forensic science and psychology to help solve a seemingly impossible mystery. This is the first volume of The Liebermann Papers , which has been turned into a television series."