Murder at Beacon Rock (A Gilded Newport Mystery)

ISBN: 1496749928

Author: Maxwell, Alyssa

Condition: New

The New York Yacht Clubs exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Islands Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned corpse in Alyssa Maxwells tenth Gilded Newport MysteryAs a reporter, Emma is used to covering Newports social events. But this time she is appearing on the arm of her fiancé, Derrick Andrews, at a small but exclusive gathering of the New York Yacht Club at Beacon Rock, the Grecian-inspired summer cottage of Edwin and Elizabeth Morgan. The members-which include cousin and Yacht Club Commodore John Pierpoint Morgan and widow Lucy Carnegie, the first woman to be admitted to the Club-are there to discuss their strategy for the next Americas Cup Challenge, to be held in New York Harbor the following summer.But its Emma who must come up with a strategy when she discovers a womans body bobbing against one of the hulls of the boats moored at the base of Beacon Rock. After the woman is identified as the missing daughter of a yacht designer, the police-with the exception of Emmas friend Detective Jesse Whyte-hastily conclude she is a suicide, perhaps to quiet any scandal for the Morgans. But Emma suspects the woman was murdered and begins to sort through a whos who of sportsmen, boat crews, and the Newport elite in search of a stone-cold killer . . .