Robin M. (robinmy) - , reviewed on 11/30/2023 + 2149 more book reviews

It's 1899, and newspaper editor Emma Cross is attending Newport's first-ever automobile parade. She is admiring the colorfully decorated vehicles when there is a ruckus. It seems young Phillip King drunkenly ran his car into a figure on the obstacle course. Later that evening, he is accused of using his car to pin the family butler, Isaiah Baldwin, to a tree. When Baldwin dies, people are calling for Phillip's arrest. But Emma believes that the butler was murdered. With the help of newspaper owner Derrick Andrews and Detective Jessie Whyte, Emma learns that there is a long list of people who wanted the butler dead.

This is a solid mystery with lots of suspects. Phillip's mother, Ella King asks Emma to help clear her son's name. Emma and her friends talk to the servants at Kingscote, the King's summer cottage, and find out that Isaiah Baldwin was not liked at all. Many people had reason to kill him. My rating: 4 Stars.

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