Leo Perutz was a successful writer recognized during his lifetime by an audience that extended far beyond the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where he was born. Although his oeuvre includes dramas and film scripts, he is best known for his fiction. The success he enjoyed immediately following the publication of his first novel, Die dritte Kugel (The Third Bullet) in 1915 continued throughout the 1920s and 1930s; newspapers competed for the privilege of publishing his stories as serialized novels, and several of his works were translated into as many as twenty-one foreign languages. But in 1938, when Hitler's Anschluß (annexation) of Austria forced the Jewish Perutz to flee to Tel Aviv, his career came to an abrupt halt. The absence of a German-speaking audience as well as vastly different conditions made his life as a writer a struggle. After the war, the public's interests and tastes had changed...