The Master of the Day of Judgment

The most famous novel by the celebrated Austrian expressionist writer Leo Perutz. At the center of the novel is a series of mysterious deaths of several people belonging to the world of art. Each of them committed suicide, following someone else’s suggestion. The mystical tone of this prose is combined with an engrossing intrigue, which prompted H. L. Borges to include the novel in the series “Classics of the Detective Genre.”