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Alyssa Maxwell
August 1901- A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor…
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For fans of HBO's The Gilded Age, the glorious mansions of Newport house many mysteries-murder, theft, scandal-and no one is more adept at solving them than reporter Emma Andrews…
With the dawn of the twentieth century on the horizon, the fortunes of the venerable Vanderbilt family still shine brightly in the glittering high society of Newport, Rhode Island. But…
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In late August 1898, reporter Emma Cross attends the final fete of the Newport social season and discovers the party’s over for a visiting prince …
When she stumbles upon a dead body with an arrow in it while attending a lavish Elizabethan faete in 1899, journalist Emma Vanderbilt, discovering the victim is a judge who…
In the sixth delightful A Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery set after World War I, a trip to Staffordshire for Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, leads…
When her sister Julia’s new–and much older–husband is found dead the morning after their hasty marriage, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva, must discover the killer before the…
1901: Back from their honeymoon in Italy, Emma and Derrick are adapting to married life as they return to their duties at their jointly owned newspaper, the Newport Messenger. The…
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As a reporter, Emma is used to covering Newport's social events. But this time she is appearing on the arm of her fiancA(c), Derrick Andrews, at a small but exclusive…
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…
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In glittering Newport, Rhode Island, at the close of the nineteenth century, status is everything. But despite being a poorer relation to the venerable Vanderbilts, Emma Cross has shaped her…
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In late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, journalist Emma Cross discovers the newest form of transportation has become the newest type of murder weapon …
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"Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, investigate after a guest is found dead at a posh, but small gathering at the home of her sister, Julia, where…
During an exclusive meeting of the New York Yacht Club at Beacon Rock, which she is attending with her fiancae, reporter Emma Cross discovers a woman's body floating in the…
The New York Yacht Club's exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island's Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers…
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In the sobering yet hopeful years following the First World War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, find their summer plans marred by an instance of murder…
As England recovers from its costly involvement in the Great War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, find the steady comforts of their lives unsettled by a…
Set among the landed gentry of post-WWI England and perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Alyssa Maxwell’s latest historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid…
Clues lead Emma from posh Bellevue Avenue across the bustling seaport to the modest Point neighbourhood where she grew up, and to suspects who hail from America’s most powerful families.
Includes an excerpt from Murder most malicious.
In the summer of 1898, reporter Emma Cross investigates the shocking death of a debutante at her coming-out ball among the bright lights of Newport’s high society –
In late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, journalist Emma Cross discovers the newest form of transportation has become the newest type of murder weapon…
On a clear July day in 1899…
A trip to Staffordshire for Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, leads to murder in a famed pottery works.
Following the devastation of the Great War, England’s…
Since the Great War, some family fortunes have suffered, including those of the Renshaws. Despite being the granddaughter of an earl, Julia Renshaw is under pressure to marry for money–and…
Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, are preparing for a wedding, but it may not be the happy occasion everyone hopes for …
The lean times following the Great War continue to require creative solutions for England’s noble class. But Lady Phoebe’s proposal to open up the Renshaw estate to guided tours for…
