In retrospect of the early days of The Case of Princess Schwarzenberg, I must admit that the death of the Prince, her husband, at a deer hunt in June 1732 was what first caught my attention. Hunting is, of course, intrinsically a dangerous entertainment, and accidents occurred in the past as they do in our own time. However, being shot by a crowned head — that is, the Emperor himself — was hardly an ordinary entry in the sad record of such tragedies, although, from the victim’s point of view, scarcely more desirable than if the shot had come from someone less eminent.
In the chapter, Marianne only begins to learn of the event in the form of ordinary gossip, which offers her the perfect opportunity to employ her sceptical mind and her freshly acquired experience in winnowing out the facts relevant to her investigation.
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