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Murder at The Breakers by Alyssa Maxwell #mystery #review

January 12, 2018

MURDER AT THE BREAKERS by Alyssa Maxwell Guilded Newport Mysteries 1 Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: She may be a less well-heeled relation, but as second cousin to millionaire patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt, twenty-one-year-old Emma Cross is on the guest list for...

The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island #travel

January 5, 2018

The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island was the “summer cottage” of Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Fire destroyed the original cottage, and Cornelius ordered the existing mansion built on the same site in 1893. It took several years, and Cornelius didn’t spend much time in...