J. Sydney Jones 
Silence 

‚;Jones vividly evokes 1900 Vienna… in his splendid third whodunit featuring attorney Karl Werthen and criminologist Hanns Gross.‘ Publishers Weekly, starred review Vienna, 1900. Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein, a powerful industrialist with many enemies, to find his recently missing son, Hans. Werthen quickly discovers that the young man appears to be alive and well in another country. But when a friend of Hansa journalist who wrote a number of articles claiming the councilman who committed suicide was corruptis found dead, also from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Werthen fears that sinister forces are at work… ‚;[Jones uses] mystery fiction to resurrect beautiful, historic Vienna.‘ Kirkus Reviews