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... .. .
As their investigation leads them in ever-widening circles, Emma will have to stop the killer from taking another life .
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.
The victim is one of the 400\'s most influential members, Judge Clayton Schuyler.
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.
As Emma wanders the grounds, she overhears a fierce argument between a man and a woman behind a tall hedge.
The festivities include a swordplay demonstration, an archery competition, scenes from Shakespeare\'s plays, and even a joust.
But to keep Vanderbilt\'s reckless son Neily out of trouble, she agrees to accompany him to an Elizabethan fête on the lavish grounds of Wakehurst, the Ochre Point cottage modeled after an English palace, owned by Anglophile James Van Alen.
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.
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..
