Vienna

About the Book

Vienna: Years Ago includes six short stories focusing on a collection of people in 1945 Vienna, including a Vienna police inspector, an American soldier, a former SS major, an American woman doctor, and various friends, lovers, spouses, and enemies.

About the Author

Tom Joyce worked in Ohio jails and the Ohio State Penitentiary. During his military service, he took ex-Nazis to Frankfurt, Germany, for de-Nazification proceedings. After military service, he got a PhD from Cornell University. He has taught courses in criminology and sociology to FBI agents, police officers, and college students. For many years, he has been writing, rewriting, and re-rewriting stories about a Vienna police inspector in the 1930s and 1940s. He has three novels and a dozen short stories gleaned from chapters in the novels. He is now working on novel four.