Master of the Day of Judgment: A Novel - Brossura

Perutz, Leo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1611458420 ISBN 13: 9781611458428

Casa editrice: Arcade Pub, 2013

Riassunto

Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man’s wife. By all appearances—the door was locked from the inside when the two shots rang out—the actor took his own life, but someone, or something, drove him to it. The baron sets out to learn all he can about the actor’s death in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, within a few days, similar apparent suicides are reported. What started out as a straightforward quest to establish Bischoff’s last deeds and discover the truth of his death becomes a search through the ages for an invisible enemy identified only by the actor’s dying breath, when he whispered: “. . . the Day of Judgment.” Leo Perutz combines his hallmark blend of suspense and the fantastic in this spine-tingling mystery.

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Recensione

Brilliant. (The New York Times Book Review)

A master of old-fashioned suspense stories in the grand pageturning tradition. --(The Boston Globe)

Descrizione del libro

Imagine Stephen King in Freud's Vienna writing a mystery that delves back in history and looks forward to the blood-red trumpets of the apocalypse.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Arcade Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1611458420
• ISBN 13: 9781611458428
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 147
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile