The Silence (A Viennese Mystery) - Hardcover

In 1900 Vienna, lawyer Karl Werthen finds himself investigating a puzzling suicide, the disapperance of a wealthy heir, and the murder of a journalist.

"The new book in the Viennese Mystery series - ""Vienna"," 1900." Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein, a powerful industrialist with many enemies, to find his recently missing son, Hans. Werthen quickly discovers that the young man appears to be alive and well in another country. But when a friend of Hans - a journalist who wrote a number of articles claiming the councilman who committed suicide was corrupt - is found dead, also from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Werthen fears that sinister forces are at work . . .