The Earrings Author:Eric Koch All the big names of 1883 are at the opulent Baden Baden spa, the summer capital of European high society: Napoleon and Josephine Brahms and Wagner Nietzsche and Dostoievsky Suddenly, there is a missing - or stolen? - set of earrings. Mystery, intrigue, fantasy and also farce combine to weave a tapestry of treachery, decad... more »ence and decay, where fortunes and reputations are made and lost.« less