Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man’s wife. By all appearances—the door was locke
Sixteenth-century Prague provides the setting for the story of the forbidden love between emperor Rudolf II and Esther, the wife of an influential financier, and of the efforts of the city's Great Rabbi to right a situation angering God.
Two men, a Swedish officer who has deserted from Charles XII's army, and a common brigand, meet in a barn one winter's day in the year 1701. Both are being hunted to death, and in order to escape their pursuers they exchange identities. By the author of "
