title: A Death in Vienna
author: Dr. Frank Tallis Dr.
description: British author Tallis (<i>Love Sick</i>) sets his intelligent murder mystery in the stormy, atmospheric Austrian capital at the turn of the 20th century. Psychoanalyst Max Lieberman, a contemporary of Freud's, takes time out of his busy schedule treating hysterics to help his friend Det. Oskar Rheinhardt solve the perplexing case of a beautiful medium found dead in a locked room on the day of her weekly sance. She's left a suicide note and died of a gunshot to the heart, but there's no weapon or bullet in her body. Rheinhardt is certain she's been murdered, and as he interviews each of her clients, he uncovers a number of potential suspects with motive enough for murderbut without the know-how to accomplish this impossible deed. Midway through the investigation, one of the medium's clients is bludgeoned to death in his sleepalso inside a locked room. Despite Rheinhardt's superior sleuthing and Lieberman's keen observational and analytical abilities, the murderer and the key to his modus operandi elude them until help comes from an unlikely source. Tallis convincingly animates Lieberman and Rheinhardt in a picturesque Vienna roiling with cultural and intellectual change. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  PROLOGUE
   
  Felix Howard hung on the edge of death for twenty-four hours. The Coven doctors did
  everything in their power to save him, but he kept slipping further into the darkness with each passing
  hour.
  Jackal shifters possessed a natural defense that consisted of poison in their saliva. The poison
  was only deadly or debilitating to wolf shifters and Vampires and only if received in large quantities.
  Felix had been 