Sherlock Holmes and The Mayerling Mystery
Gerhard Tötschinger
Translated by Dr. Richard R. Rutter, K.G., B.S.I.
and Herr Peter Erlsbacher

A Sherlock Holmes Story translated from the German

        Table of Contents

    Characters: Historical and Fictional
    Preface by Dr. Richard Rutter
    Introduction to the Story
    Chapter 1· A Reunion
    Chapter 2· Enter Sherlock Holmes
    Chapter 3· An Introduction to Austrian Politics
    Chapter 4· Sherlock Holmes, Violinist
    Chapter 5· Dr. Heinrich Schellenberg
    Chapter 6· Viennese Night Life
    Chapter 7· Eva Schellenberg–Feminist
    Chapter 8· In London Once Again
    Chapter 9 · "X"
    Chapter 10 · The Natural History Museum
    Chapter 11 · The Italian Trio
    Chapter 12 · "Mizzi" Caspar
    Chapter 13 · Agnes & Božena
    Chapter 14 · Rothenturmstraße 31
    Chapter 15 · The Séance
    Chapter 16 · Unnumbered Coaches
    Chapter 17 · Professor Siebenbock is Missing
    Chapter 18 · Intrigue
    Chapter 19 · In Disguise
    Chapter 20 · Miss Mary
    Chapter 21 · The Search for the Professor
    Chapter 22 · Discovery of the Victim
    Chapter 23 · The Arrest of Holmes & Watson
    Chapter 24 · A Royal Assignation
    Chapter 25 · The Aftermath
    Chapter 26 · The Incarceration of Sherlock Holmes
    Chapter 27 · Happy Birthday to the Emperor
    Chapter 28 · A Plan of Action
    Chapter 29 · A Violent Finale

    Quality Trade Paperback, 196 pp.
    ISBN 978-1-55497-425-2                   $25.00

    Black Cloth Hard Cover with Dustjacket, 196 pp.
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Professor Gerhard Tötschinger is a very popular man of letters and of the arts. He is perhaps best known for his numerous travel books. He hosted the Austrian quiz show, Red-White-Red, and has also been active in the theater world. Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Mayerling is Professor Tötschinger’s second Sherlock Holmes pastiche. As in his previous novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Sachertorte, this current offering draws heavily upon the author’s intimate knowledge of Victorian Vienna.

Dr. Richard R. Rutter is retired, after serving for 51 years as a professor of Orthodontics at the University of the Pacific in San Francisco. He taught Orthodontics at the Julius Maximus University in Würzburg (Bavaria) Germany 1986-89. He is a Baker Street Irregular and a member of several American and German Sherlock Holmes societies. This is his third translation of German language Holmes pastiches.

Herr Peter Erlsbacher is a retired banker in securities investments. He is a native of Vienna and very interested in the history and culture of his birthplace. He is an ardent fan of the Sherlockian canon and was a member of the Von Herder’s Airguns society, contributing articles to that society’s publication previous to it closure.