1899. “Golden Vienna” is experiencing an unprecedented flourishing of the fine arts. Fans and lovers of music flock to the Vienna Opera from all over Europe. But unexpectedly, on the world’s finest stage, a completely non-theatrical bloody drama unfolds…
Someone is trying to kill the great composer Gustav Mahler. Worse still: Mahler may not be the first genius with whom an unknown killer intends to settle.
The police are powerless. And then Mahler’s fiancée, the society beauty Alma Schindler, asks for help from Vienna’s best detectives—brilliant lawyer Karl Vereten and his friend, the genius criminalist Hans Gross—big fans of intricate and dangerous mysteries…