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Astrologer, fortune-teller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years. Who murdered the artist Umezawa, raped and killed his daughter, and then chopped up the bodies of six others to create Azoth, the supreme woman?
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.
When the sad, beautiful Signora Giulia goes missing without a trace from her Lake Como villa home, it is her husband who reports her disappearance to the detective Sciancalepre, and so the search begins – one that takes Sciancalepre beneath the tranquil surface of local bourgeois society, a world of snobbery and secrets, while mysterious shadows lurk in the grounds of the family villa. As his investigation gathers pace this atmospheric classic detective story becomes a thrilling game of legal cat and mouse.
Bringing the destruction of a war-torn Europe to life, ‘The World of Yesterday’ is Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death.
A poignant story in which the conflict between duty and loyalty mixed with desire is impressively conveyed.
Bringing the destruction of a war-torn Europe to life, ‘The World of Yesterday’ is Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death.
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