Death in a Gilded Frame

<p><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>Newport Summer 1899-yachts balls and famed artists eager to paint portraits of Society's Queens.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>Western silver heiress Val Mackle DeVere (Mrs. Roderick W.) agrees to sit for a portrait for her beloved Roddy only to stumble on a scene of bloody grisly homicide at an art gallery.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>Like a figure from Pompeii the dead Newport gallery manager screams in silence his hands like claws clutching at a gilt frame pulled down over his head and shoulders while blood darkens his cream-colored suit. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(112 48 160 1)>Impulsive Val reaches for the murder weapon and will find herself suspected shamed and shunned as she seeks the killer while learning yet again a lesson taught by Cornelius Vanderbilt IV: No city on earth is as hostile to outsiders as Newport. </span></p>