The Master of the Day of Judgment
( German - Der Meister des Jüngsten Tages - 1930 )
novel by Leo Perutz
translated by Hedwig Singer
Published: Charles Boni Paper Books - paperback - 1930
ISBN: none
Kessinger Publishing - trade paperback - 2005 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1417925280 / 9781417925285
Kessinger Publishing - hardback - 2007 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 0548023123 / 9780548023129
Kessinger Publishing - trade paperback - 2010 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1162756586 / 9781162756585
Kessinger Publishing - hardback - 2010 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1163334898 / 9781163334898
Kessinger Publishing - hardback - 2011 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1169870988 /9781169870987
Literary Licensing, LLC - hardback - 2013 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1258943735 / 9781258943738
Literary Licensing, LLC - trade paperback - 2013 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1494041499 / 9781494041496
trans. by Eric Mosbacher
The Harvill Press - hardback - 1994 ( UK )
ISB:N0002715112 / 9780002715119
The Harvill Press - trade paperback - 1994
ISBN: 0002730065 / 9780002730068
Arcade Press - hardback - 1994 ( USA )
ISBN: 1559701714 / 9781559701716
Arcade books - trade paperback - 1994
ISBN: 1559703342 / 9781559703345
Arcade Publishing - paperback - 2013
ISBN: 1611458420 / 9781611458428
Arcade Publishing - e-book - 2013
eISBN: 9781611456561
synopsis
When the idolised actor Eugen Bischoff is found shot dead in a garden pavilion in Vienna one September evening of 1909, suspicion fastens at once on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who has been the lover of the dead man's wife Dina. While Dina's brother prepares to expose the baron to public humiliation and drive him to suicide, two of BischofFs friends are willing to accept von Yosch's word that he is innocent and that the actor took his own life. The three of them piece together the scanty clues and in the course of a couple of days painstakingly establish what occurred during the actor's last hours, and how this relates to some recent unexplained suicides in his circle. An atmosphere of deepening mystery is suffused with terror as the shadowy nightmare figures in the actor's last days are gradually, at no little peril to the enquirers, brought to light.
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( German - Der Meister des Jüngsten Tages - 1930 )
novel by Leo Perutz
translated by Hedwig Singer
Published: Charles Boni Paper Books - paperback - 1930
ISBN: none
Kessinger Publishing - trade paperback - 2005 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1417925280 / 9781417925285
Kessinger Publishing - hardback - 2007 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 0548023123 / 9780548023129
Kessinger Publishing - trade paperback - 2010 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1162756586 / 9781162756585
Kessinger Publishing - hardback - 2010 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1163334898 / 9781163334898
Kessinger Publishing - hardback - 2011 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1169870988 /9781169870987
Literary Licensing, LLC - hardback - 2013 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1258943735 / 9781258943738
Literary Licensing, LLC - trade paperback - 2013 ( scan POD )
ISBN: 1494041499 / 9781494041496
trans. by Eric Mosbacher
The Harvill Press - hardback - 1994 ( UK )
ISB:N0002715112 / 9780002715119
The Harvill Press - trade paperback - 1994
ISBN: 0002730065 / 9780002730068
Arcade Press - hardback - 1994 ( USA )
ISBN: 1559701714 / 9781559701716
Arcade books - trade paperback - 1994
ISBN: 1559703342 / 9781559703345
Arcade Publishing - paperback - 2013
ISBN: 1611458420 / 9781611458428
Arcade Publishing - e-book - 2013
eISBN: 9781611456561
synopsis
When the idolised actor Eugen Bischoff is found shot dead in a garden pavilion in Vienna one September evening of 1909, suspicion fastens at once on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who has been the lover of the dead man's wife Dina. While Dina's brother prepares to expose the baron to public humiliation and drive him to suicide, two of BischofFs friends are willing to accept von Yosch's word that he is innocent and that the actor took his own life. The three of them piece together the scanty clues and in the course of a couple of days painstakingly establish what occurred during the actor's last hours, and how this relates to some recent unexplained suicides in his circle. An atmosphere of deepening mystery is suffused with terror as the shadowy nightmare figures in the actor's last days are gradually, at no little peril to the enquirers, brought to light.
awards
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