{"id":1245,"date":"2009-05-06T23:03:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T03:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:33:55","slug":"17671-frank-tallis-fatal-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"17671. (Frank Tallis) Fatal&nbsp;Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is a well-writ\u00adten mys\u00adtery nov\u00adel, with a very lean prose style and direct, sequen\u00adtial plot\u00adting. Mur\u00adder and may\u00adhem in a Vien\u00adnese mil\u00adi\u00adtary acad\u00ade\u00admy, 1903.&nbsp;Detec\u00adtives improb\u00ada\u00adbly using psy\u00adcho\u00adan\u00ada\u00adlyt\u00adic tech\u00adniques to solve the mys\u00adtery, but, hey, that\u2019s the con\u00adceit of the tale. Music every\u00adwhere, pas\u00adtries, waltzes, and absyn\u00adthe bub\u00adbling on the spoon. Tallis\u2019 inser\u00adtion of piquant his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal details is care\u00adful\u00adly cal\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded to please the read\u00ader \u2014 nev\u00ader too much at a time, nev\u00ader too didac\u00adtic. The decay\u00ading poly\u00adglot Aus\u00adtro-Hun\u00adgar\u00adi\u00adan Empire is the per\u00adfect back\u00adground for the thriller and mur\u00adder mys\u00adtery writer, espe\u00adcial\u00adly with our ret\u00adro\u00adspec\u00adtive fas\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtion with its sex\u00adu\u00adal and psy\u00adchopath\u00ade\u00adl\u00adog\u00adi\u00adcal obses\u00adsions. Even old Kraft-Ebbing turns up in a&nbsp;toast.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a well-writ\u00adten mys\u00adtery nov\u00adel, with a very lean prose style and direct, sequen\u00adtial plot\u00adting. Mur\u00adder and may\u00adhem in a Vien\u00adnese mil\u00adi\u00adtary acad\u00ade\u00admy, 1903.&nbsp;Detec\u00adtives improb\u00ada\u00adbly using psy\u00adcho\u00adan\u00ada\u00adlyt\u00adic tech\u00adniques to solve the mys\u00adtery, but, hey, that\u2019s the con\u00adceit of&nbsp;the&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1245\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-br-reading-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}