The Master of the Day of Judgment

About this book

An actor dies after a musical gathering in Vienna, and suspicion settles on Baron von Yosch, who once loved the dead man's wife. The apparent mystery leads towards something far more unsettling than an ordinary murder.

Leo Perutz builds a labyrinth of memory, guilt and uncanny coincidence around a small social circle. The narrator's own reliability becomes part of the problem, and each clue seems to push the story further from a comfortable explanation. The final discoveries cast a disturbing light over everything that came before.