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Kay Adams and Nancy Markey

Sharing a friendship since childhood, Markey and Adams have teamed up to write a historical fiction novel dramatizing the events surrounding the murder of Benjamin J. Burton. They also are creating a nonfiction collection of essays featuring crimes that shocked Gilded Age Newport. Please visit their website: gildedageauthors.com  

Stories By Kay Adams and Nancy Markey

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A Gilded Age Tale of Murder and Madness

Story by Kay Adams and Nancy Markey | November 17, 2022

In opulent seaside Newport, a wealthy and beloved Black businessman turns up dead. The prime suspect is his son-in-law, a dashing medical student set to become one of the country’s first Black surgeons. The resulting trial will tear the town in...

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