Murder at Kingscote
Maxwell, Alyssa2021
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On a clear July day in 1899, the salty ocean breeze along Bellevue Avenue carries new smells of gasoline and exhaust as Emma, now editor-in-chief of the Newport Messenger, covers Newport's first-ever automobile parade. But the festive atmosphere soon turns to shock as young Philip King drunkenly swerves his motorcar into a wooden figure of a nanny pushing a pram on the obstacle course. That evening, at a dinner party hosted by Ella King at her magnificent Gothic-inspired 'cottage', Kingscote, Emma and her beau Derrick Andrews are enjoying the food and the company when Ella's son staggers in, obviously still inebriated. But the disruption is nothing compared to the urgent shouts of the coachman. Rushing out, they find the family's butler pinned against a tree beneath the front wheels of Philip's motorcar, close to death. Emma begins to investigate, suspecting the scene may be staged.
Main title:
Murder at Kingscote / Alyssa Maxwell.
Author:
Maxwell, Alyssa, author
Imprint:
New York : Kensington, 2021.
Collation:
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781496720764 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2922544
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