 First edition | |
| Author | E.C.R. Lorac |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Chief Inspector MacDonald |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 1956 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Ask a Policeman |
| Followed by | Dangerous Domicile |
Murder in Vienna is a 1956 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett. [1] [2] It is the forty second in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, one of the more conventional detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [3] It has an unusual foreign setting, post-war Vienna at the time when the Allied occupants were leaving the country as a consequence of the Austrian State Treaty, compared to the rest of the series which generally takes place in London or the English countryside. Maurice Richardson reviewing the novel for The Observer described it as the "usual solid job".
