Just to make sure - Derschau the interrogator (and now fall guy) was Karl Friedrich von Derschau, right? Or was he another one? This one didn't marry and procreate until 1733, so if he's the fall guy in 1732, there won't be a grieving widow left behind.
Alas, he was Christian Reinhold von Derschau, whose wiki entry mentions his interrogation of Fritz. Married in 1718, 6 kids, only one with a birth date, and that birthdate is 1723. So a grieving widow and 6 kids, assuming his wife is still alive.
Drat. Well, in that case, how about this: one night after everyone kills FW, someone else kills Derschau, who was at first the guy investigating. Naturally everyone assumes the two murders are connected, and Derschau was killed by the original killer, which further distracts from the solution. In fact, though, the two murders were entirely seperate for different reasons, and Derschau was killed by Hirsch's son/daughter/lover/, by hanging Derschau. This is important because we need a method that can also have been a suicide without modern autopsies. Hirsch's son/daughter/lover then sensibly left Prussia as quickly as they could. Once FS has figured the two murders were separate and what happened, and has decided to not out the conspiracy, his alternate solution is that Derschau killed FW and then in remorse committed suicide. Would that work?
That could work. Of course, let's not forget the wife could very well be a relieved widow rather than a grieving widow, depending on her personality, the quality of her marriage, and the state of her financial situation.
But a decoy killing is always a nice twist, no objections here!
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Re: FW Whodunit
Date: 2021-03-27 06:43 am (UTC)Re: FW Whodunit
Date: 2021-03-27 12:51 pm (UTC)Re: FW Whodunit
Date: 2021-03-27 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: FW Whodunit
Date: 2021-03-27 05:01 pm (UTC)But a decoy killing is always a nice twist, no objections here!