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ID: 444253

Title: Murder at Kingscote

Author: Alyssa Maxwell

Narrator: Eva Kaminsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

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, 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 Newports 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 Ellas son staggers in, obviously

still inebriated. But the disruption is nothing compared to the urgent shouts of the coachman. Rushing out, they find

the familys butler pinned against a tree beneath the front wheels of Philips motorcar, close to death.

At first, the tragic tableau appears to be a reckless accidentone which could ruin Philips reputation. But when

Emma later receives a message informing her that the butler bullied his staff and took advantage of young maids, she

begins to suspect the scene may have been staged and steers the police toward a murder investigation. But while Emma

investigates the connections between a competing heir for the King fortune, a mysterious child, an inmate of an insane

asylum, and the brutal boxing rings of Providence, a killer remains at largewith unfinished business to attend to

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