# The Shooting Party

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- Book: [The Shooting Party](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov/the-shooting-party) ([The Shooting Party.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov/the-shooting-party.md))
- Authors: [Anton Tchekhov](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-681-2
- Published: 2004-06-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships: with her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself...