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020    9781250083029|qinbunden 
041    eng 
082 00 943.604410922|223 
092 0  943.6 Rudolf|bengelska 
100 1  King, Greg,|d1964-|4aut 
245 10 Twilight of empire :|bthe tragedy at Mayerling and the end
       of the Habsburgs /|cGreg King and Penny Wilson 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2017 
300    xvii, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
       |billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and 
       index 
520    On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant 
       hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep
       in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled 
       on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown 
       Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his
       seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she 
       slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke,
       turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed 
       this bloody scene into romantic tragedy: star-crossed 
       lovers who preferred death together than to be parted by a
       cold, unfeeling Viennese Court. But Mayerling is also the 
       story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and 
       mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and 
       political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted 
       Crown Prince and a naïve schoolgirl caught up in a 
       dangerous and deadly waltz inside a decaying empire. What 
       happened in that locked room remains one of history's most
       evocative mysteries: What led Rudolf and mistress to this 
       desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did 
       something far more disturbing take place at that remote 
       hunting lodge and result in murder? 
600 04 Rudolf,|ckronprins av Ö̈sterrike-Ungern,|d1858-1889 
600 14 Vetsera, Mary,|d1871-1889 
600 34 Habsburg (furstehus) 
648  7 1800-talet|2sao 
650  7 Prinsar|2sao 
650  7 Mord|2sao 
651  7 Österrike-Ungern|2sao 
655  7 Biografier|2saogf 
700 1  Wilson, Penny,|d1966-|4aut 
907 00 171207