Deep in the Vienna woods, on a snowy morning in January, 1889, a servant hacked open a locked door, of a remote hunting lodge. 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. He then sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. What happened in that locked room, remains one of history’s most evocative mysteries. What led Rudolf to do this desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did something far more disturbing take place at that remote hunting lodge? Crown Prince Rudolf, was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Josph, and Duchess Elisabeth (Sisi). Youth, wealth, and rank, Rudolf soon discovered, had their privileges. Eager young females positively dropped into the lap of Rudolf, and the lusty young prince saw it as his patriotic duty, to have them all. Ru...