Since 1889 the standard European feature story has been "The Mystery of Mayerling," uncorked two or three times a year by practically every newspaperman from the Baltic to the Bosporus. Its fascination for Continental readers can only be grasped by Anglo-Saxons in terms of a married Prince of Wales found with his head smashed in by a champagne bottle at his hunting lodge while dead of poison on the bed lay Mrs. So-&-So with a bullet through her head. If so baffling a discovery were to be sipped and savored for 46...
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