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âJones vividly evokes 1900 Vienna . . . in his splendid third whodunit featuring attorney Karl Werthen and criminologist Hanns Gross.â âPublishers Weekly, starred review  Vienna, 1900. Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein, a powerful industrialist with many enemies, to find his recently missing son, Hans. Werthen quickly discovers that the young man appears to be alive and well in another country. But when a friend of Hansâa journalist who wrote a number of articles claiming the councilman who committed suicide was corruptâis found dead, also from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Werthen fears that sinister forces are at work . . .  â[Jones uses] mystery fiction to resurrect beautiful, historic Vienna.â âKirkus Reviews |
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