Maxwell Alyssa - Murder At Wakehurst - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In the ninth installment of the glittering Gilded Newport Mystery series from Alyssa Maxwell during the autumnal chill of Newport Rhode Island at the close of the nineteenth century journalist Emma Cross discovers an instance of cold - blooded murder on the grounds of Wakehurst Mansion Following the death of her uncle Cornelius Vanderbilt in September 1899, a somber Emma is in no mood for one of Newport's extravagant parties. But to keep Vanderbilt's reckless son Neily out of trouble she agrees to accompany him to an Elizabethan f te on the lavish grounds of Wakehurst the Ochre Point cottage modeled after an English palace owned by Anglophile James Van Alen. The festivities include a swordplay demonstration an archery competition scenes from Shakespeare's plays and even a joust. As Emma wanders the grounds she overhears a fierce argument between a man and a woman behind a tall hedge. As the joust begins she's drawn by the barking of Van Alen's dogs and finds a man on the ground an arrow through his chest. The victim is one of the 400's most influential members Judge Clayton Schuyler. With the help of her beau Derrick Andrews and Detective Jesse Whyte Emma begins to learn the judge was not the straight arrow he appeared to be. As their investigation leads them in ever - widening circles Emma will have to stop the killer from taking another life
Title: Murder At Wakehurst
Author(s): Maxwell Alyssa
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
Barcode: 9781496720771
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/28/2022
Series: A Gilded Newport Mystery (#9)
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction