
Spring 1908: Brilliant young English doctor Max Liebermann and tenacious Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt are now working as an established crime-solving partnership. Max is now a published author in the field of criminal psychopathy, and Oskar’s reputation is on the rise. But in the grand cafes and opera houses of Vienna, cultures, ideas and crime still flourish.

A young seamstress is murdered in a luxury fashion house. Oscar and Max are initially perplexed, but further clues are revealed when Max receives a letter at his new practice.