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The Melancholy Countess

par Frank Tallis

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A master of mystery and suspense, Frank Tallis brings back Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann in an eBook short story exclusive--a new, riveting turn-of-the-century tale in the "captivating historical series" (The New York Times Book Review) that is beloved around the world.

Haunted by the sudden death of her grown son, Countess Zigana Nadazdy-Hauke is as unhappy as she is elegant. But is she miserable enough to drown herself in the bath? That's the conventional wisdom in Vienna. But Rheinhardt and Liebermann have another idea after meeting the poor soul's much younger widower: Oktav Hauke is handsome and dashing, but also callous to the point of pathology, admittedly abusive, in debt up to his ears, and a serial surviving spouse: He's lost two other rich older wives to premature deaths. Now he's the obvious suspect. But can this solution be too simple, as well?

After the shocking ending, catch a preview of Frank Tallis' thrilling new novel in the series, Death and the Maiden!

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Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (September 2012) of the original eBook (August 2012)

I wasn't familiar with the Liebermann Papers / Vienna Blood books (2005 - ) until I happened to recently see the first episode of Season 2 of the TV series and saw that it was based on Frank Tallis' novels.

It is not a fair comparison, but having seen the TV adaptation first, this original short story was a much simpler affair even if it had some of the same main characters and a similar but different twist ending. This book/audiobook version doesn't call on the psychiatric skills of Dr. Max Liebermann very much at all, unless you want to say that hypnotism is part of those arts.

I still enjoyed it enough that I'd certainly read further books in this historical crime/psychiatry series set in early 20th century Vienna, Austria.

See photograph at https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTMyOGQ0YmQtMjljZS00NTY0LTlkOTUtYTU3NGY5...
Actors Sunnyi Melles (as murder victim Countess Sophia Nadazdy) and Nikolai Gemel (as suspect Oktav Hauke) in a scene from the TV series adaptation of "The Melancholy Countess". Image sourced from IMDb.

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The Melancholy Countess was adapted and filmed in Season 2 Episode 1 of the BBC TV series Vienna Blood (2019-). A trailer for the series can be seen on YouTube here. ( )
  alanteder | Dec 12, 2021 |
As always - Frank Tallis can do no wrong! ( )
  autumnbride2015 | Aug 4, 2013 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A master of mystery and suspense, Frank Tallis brings back Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann in an eBook short story exclusive--a new, riveting turn-of-the-century tale in the "captivating historical series" (The New York Times Book Review) that is beloved around the world.

Haunted by the sudden death of her grown son, Countess Zigana Nadazdy-Hauke is as unhappy as she is elegant. But is she miserable enough to drown herself in the bath? That's the conventional wisdom in Vienna. But Rheinhardt and Liebermann have another idea after meeting the poor soul's much younger widower: Oktav Hauke is handsome and dashing, but also callous to the point of pathology, admittedly abusive, in debt up to his ears, and a serial surviving spouse: He's lost two other rich older wives to premature deaths. Now he's the obvious suspect. But can this solution be too simple, as well?

After the shocking ending, catch a preview of Frank Tallis' thrilling new novel in the series, Death and the Maiden!

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