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Alyssa Maxwell

Feb 21 min

Murder at The Breakers on Hallmark!

It's been quite a journey seeing the first book in my Gilded Newport Mysteries adapted for television by Hallmark Movies and Mysteries....

Alyssa Maxwell

Sep 24, 20235 min

Inventions of the Gilded Age

(First posted on Crime Reads, August 2023) "We don’t have a choice in the matter, Mr. McAllistar, we must go where history takes us." In...

Alyssa Maxwell

Mar 7, 202219 min

Excerpt: Murder at Beacon Rock

Newport, RI, July 1900 The high-sprung carriage, pulled by a matching pair of Cleveland bays, crossed the bridge that spanned a vast,...

Alyssa Maxwell

Jul 9, 20218 min

Excerpt: Murder at Wakehurst

September 14, 1899 The seemingly impossible had happened, and with so little fanfare it might almost have gone unnoticed. Except that the...

Alyssa Maxwell

Oct 8, 20203 min

Wonders Come in Small Packages: An Overview of Kingscote

(First posted on Victoria Magazine's Victoria Vignettes blog, 9/24/20) Kingscote, on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, RI, was built in 1838...

Alyssa Maxwell

Sep 12, 20202 min

Choosing Kingscote for a Gilded Newport Mystery

Previously appeared on The Wickeds blog, Sept. 7, 2020 I’m often asked how I choose each house I write about. My reasons vary, actually....