Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his gard
en pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army o
fficer who was once the lover of the dead man's wife. By all appearances, the do
or was locked from the inside when the two shots rang out, the actor took his ow
n life, but someone, or something, drove him to it. The baron sets out to learn
all he can about the actor's death in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, within
a few days, similar apparent suicides are reported.
