num_pages: 473
description: In 1900s Vienna, Psychoanalyst Dr Max Liebermann is called in to help with police investigations into the murder of a young medium.In this first of a new series of psychoanalytical detective novels set in Vienna, Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst – and disciple of Freud. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art flourish and are hotly debated in the coffee shops. Psychoanalysis is still developing and is viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion.Liebermann’s good friend Oskar Rheinhardt is a Detective Inspector — hard working but lacking Liebermann’s insights and forensic eye, and so it is through Rheinhardt that 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. When 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.
language: English
title: Mortal Mischief
titlecomplete: Mortal Mischief (Liebermann Papers, #1)
characters: Natalie Heck, Amelia Lydgate, Cosima von Rath, Stefan Kanner, Minister Schelling, Professor Mathias, Oskar Rheinhardt, Rosa Sucher, Leah (Liebermann), Mendel & Rebecca Liebermann, Gruner, Hannah Liebermann, Clara Weiss, Hans Bruckmüller, Signora Locatelli, Theo Roche, Karl Uberhorst, Heinrich & Juno Hölderlin, Haussmann, Manfred Brügel, Otto  Braun, Karl Lueger, Max Liebermann, Zoltán Záborszky, Charlotte Löwenstein, Sabine Rupius, Victor von Bulow
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Historical, Detective, Psychology, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery
ratings_count: 3224
places: Vienna
series: Liebermann Papers
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award
publisher: Arrow