Master of the Day of JudgmentVienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found shot 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, Dina. By all appearances, the actor took his own life - two shots had rung out, and the door was locked from inside - but clearly someone, or some thing, drove him to it. While Dina's brother prepares to expose the baron, two of the actor's friends accept his claims of innocence and lend their support to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, within a few days other, similar suicides are reported. And what started out as a straightforward effort to establish the actor's last deeds becomes a search through the ages, in an atmosphere of deepening terror, for an invisible enemy identified only through the actor's dying whisper, "...the Day of Judgment.". |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 12 |
Section 4 | 20 |
Section 5 | 33 |
Section 6 | 48 |
Section 7 | 54 |
Section 8 | 63 |
Section 10 | 96 |
Section 11 | 101 |
Section 12 | 107 |
Section 13 | 113 |
Section 14 | 121 |
Section 15 | 126 |
Section 16 | 136 |
Section 17 | 142 |
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