Murder Trail

Ingenious murders, high society and haute cuisine from the Biedermeier era

In the spring of 1815 there is a spate of sensational murders. During a horse show at Baron Fördösy’s, Count Karl-Heinz Laubenthal suffers a fatal riding accident. Then, only a few days later, Fördösy is found hanged in his castle in Asparn on the River Zaya. And that is by no means the end of this series of treacherous assassinations. It is not until Chief Police Commissioner Leopold Kasbauer and Count Ado von Niedernfels discover that all the murders have a common goal that they succeed in unmasking the perpetrator.

Prof. Dr. Theodor Tomandl, born in Vienna in 1933, was head of the Institute of Labour and Employment Law at Vienna University and Professor in this discipline until the end of 2001. He is well known at home and abroad as the author of specialist and non-fiction books. After his retirement he began writing historical crime fiction. In 2004 »Murder at the Vienna Congress« appeared.