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Murder at Rough Point [text (large print)] / Alyssa Maxwell.

By: Maxwell, Alyssa [author.].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Maxwell, Alyssa. Gilded Newport mystery: 4.Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.Description: 392 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781683243373; 1683243374.Subject(s): Reporters and reporting -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Newport (R.I.) -- Fiction | Large type books | Reporters and reporting -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Newport (R.I) -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: "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 own identity--as a reporter and a sleuth. Her skills will be needed at an artists' retreat at her cousin's cottage when an artist is murdered"-- Provided by publisher.
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Large Print Gonville Library
Large Print 		Large Print MAXW 1 Checked out 18/03/2021 T00619705
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 own identity -- as a reporter and a sleuth.Fancies and Fashion reporter Emma Cross is sent by the Newport Observer to cover an elite house party at Rough Point, the "cottage" owned by her distant cousin Frederick Vanderbilt, which has been rented as a retreat for artists. To her surprise, the illustrious guests include her estranged Bohemian parents -- recently returned from Europe -- as well as a variety of notable artists, including author Edith Wharton.

Originally published: New York : Kensington Books, 2016.

"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 own identity--as a reporter and a sleuth. Her skills will be needed at an artists' retreat at her cousin's cottage when an artist is murdered"-- Provided by publisher.

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Booklist Review

Budding journalist Emma Cross, from the Newport Observer, is invited to the Vanderbilt estate Rough Point, in Newport, Rhode Island, to write an article about the group of artists renting the mansion. She is surprised to find her parents, whom she hasn't seen in four years, are there as well. When a member of the party is found dead after falling off of a cliff, the rest wonder if their fellow guest was murdered. When a second death occurs, this time inside the house, and a nasty storm prevents the guests from leaving, they begin to look at one another as potential murderers. Emma, with assistance from author Edith Wharton, provides information to her friend, police detective Jesse Whyte. After Jesse makes an arrest, Emma comes to believe that the accused is innocent, so she continues to investigate, almost losing her life in the process. Emma, a distant Vanderbilt relative, is an interesting, independent career woman in this satisfying first-person account that includes well-drawn characters and is set in 1896, among the lives of the rich and famous.--O'Brien, Sue Copyright 2016 Booklist