The Wharton Plot

✍ Scribed by Mariah Fredericks

• Book ID: 112280992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 365 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250827432

✦ Synopsis

Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot**, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer.**
New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage.
And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips—a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place in it—is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith herself met the man only once, when the two formed a mutual distaste over tea in the Palm Court of the Belmont hotel. When Phillips is killed, Edith's life takes another turn. His sister is convinced Graham was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which promised to uncover secrets that powerful...