Behind the enchanting and tantalizing world of new music, art, fashion, literature, psychology, and love that permeate Vienna, there lies the mysterious deaths of multiple women--some by murder, some by suicide. While Dr. Sigmund Freud takes leave to Paris, a bloody body is discovered in his study, disappearing just as quickly as it was discovered.

Amidst the mounting anti-Semitic pressures to lay blame of the deaths at the door of Jews, Police Inspector Maurice LeBlanc races against the clock to solve the murders and suicides before a riot ensues.

Filled with "real" characters, from Freud himself to Edith Wharton and many others, Henry James' Midnight Song brilliantly blends history and fiction in a fast-moving, breathtakingly original novel.