A Freudian Detective in Old Vienna: Frank Tallis’s Vienna Mysteries Series

Published originally in the PANY Bulletin, summer 2010

I came across a relatively new mystery series, written by a clinical psychologist from London, which takes place in fin de siècle Vienna and has as its primary protagonist a young psychiatrist, Max Lieberman, who is a disciple of Freud. Along with his friend, Oscar Reinhardt, a more conventional detective, Max uses his Freudian attention to detail and meaning in a Holmesian manner to solve crimes.

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