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MORTAL MISCHIEFAuthor: Tallis, FrankCatalogue number: 7403 Number of cassettes: 13 Time (hours): 0.00 Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories Vienna 1902, and a beautiful medium has been shot dead. Dr Max Liebermann helps his friend DI Oskar Rheinhardt investigate using the new science of psychoanalysis. |
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PASTOR'S WIFE, THEAuthor: Von Arnim, ElizabethCatalogue number: 7229 Number of cassettes: 11 Time (hours): 0.00 Main subject: 20th Century Classics Ingeborg Bullivant returns from a tour to Lucerne engaged. Her subsequent life as a rural pastorÆs wife is just as restrictive as her old one, then a dashing artist appears with tales of wondrous Italy and her wanderlust returns. |
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SECRETS OF THE CHESS MACHINE, THEAuthor: Lohr, RobertCatalogue number: 7931 Number of cassettes: 11 Time (hours): 13.00 Main subject: Historical Fiction - Pre 1914 In Vienna, during 1770, Baron von Kempelen unveiled an unbeatable chess-playing machine, The Mechanical Turk. Hailed as a great invention, it was actually an illusion, operated from inside by an Italian dwarf, Tibor. When a beautiful Contessa died, the machine and its inventor became the target of persecution and intrigue. |
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SO HE TAKES THE DOGAuthor: Buckley, JonathanCatalogue number: 7510 Number of cassettes: 11 Time (hours): 0.00 Main subject: General Fiction Additional subject: Detective & Mystery Stories The fears, prejudices and desires of the inhabitants of a town on the south coast of England are examined in the aftermath of a brutal murder: a murder discovered when a dog on the beach brings its owner a severed human hand. |
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VIENNA BLOODAuthor: Tallis, FrankCatalogue number: 7655 Number of cassettes: 12 Time (hours): 0.00 Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories A serial killer is on the loose during the Siberian winter of 1902, Vienna. Inspector Rheinhardt enlists the help of his young friend Dr Max Liebermann, a disciple of Freud, to try and penetrate the vicious killer's mind. |
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WAXMAN MURDERS, THEAuthor: Doherty, P CCatalogue number: 7770 Number of cassettes: 8 Time (hours): 9.00 Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories Medieval sleuth, Hugh Corbett, investigates the vicious murders of Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic League, and his wife and clerk in Canterbury, in 1303; Von Paulents was rumoured to own a valuable set of sea charts, the ‘Carta Mysteriosa’. |
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