Inspector Rheinhardt calls on his friend, Freudian psychiatrist Max Lieberman, to help solve the crime. The novel is written in short chapters, each one comprising a scene in the story which gives the ...

The literary world lost one of its greats this year when Mexican author Sergio Pitol died at age 85. Known for transcending genres and styles, Pitol's writing stretched beyond the traditional magical ...

The devil is in the music in this sleek and scary piece of movie necromancy - when a failed musician-turned-journalist (Alan Alda, M*A*S*H) interviews a reclusive aging pianist (Curt Jurgens, The ...

A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that ...

A prologue describing the assassination of Empress Elizabeth of Austria in Geneva in 1898 casts an ominous shadow over the events of Edgar-finalist Tallis’s gripping seventh mystery featuring ...