Mortal mischief is the first novel in the supposed Liebermann papers written by Frank Tallis and is set during the turn of the twentieth century in Vienna, Austria. Max Liebermann is a young psychologist who is a follower of Freud and a friend of the local police inspector Oskar Rheinhardt. Rheinhardt is called to a murder of a beautiful psychic called Miss Lowenstien, she is found in her room shot through the heart with the door locked from the inside. The classic single room mystery begins when Rheinhardt turns to Liebermann to help him with the troubling supernatural elements of the murder, Rheinhardt wants Liebermann to put his analytical skills to play to help solve  Read the complete review

When a young and beautiful medium is murdered in 1902 Vienna Detective Inspector, Oskar Rheinhardt is called in to investigate. He finds the case baffling, not only was the body found in a room locked from the inside with no other means of entry, there also doesn't seem to be any means by which the murder could've taken place. When an internally locked box is also found containing a small statuette of an ancient Egyptian god speculation starts that the death might have been due to supernatural forces. Was the medium Miss Lowenstein dabbling in the dark arts summoning demons, which then led to her death? Did the members of her séance group have anything to do with her ...  Read the complete review