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A Notorious Heiress
(2026)(The fourth book in the Isabella Hartwell Society Mystery series)
A novel by Sarah F Noel
New York, 1899. American heiress Isabella Hartwell has returned to Fifth Avenue for a family emergency. She certainly isn’t expecting to be embroiled in another murder.
When Isabella’s aunt falls ill, she persuades Lady Arlene Archibald and a reluctant Dowager Countess of Pembroke to accompany her across the Atlantic. Unlike Isabella’s previous voyage, which involved the disappearance of a priceless emerald necklace, this journey is mercifully uneventful.
The peace ends the moment they arrive in New York.
Waiting on the dock is Christopher ‘Kit’ Bailey, the flamboyant theatrical impresario and the dowager’s sworn nemesis. Kit has come to America with dreams of conquering Broadway and a talented young actress he is certain will become its newest star.
Within a day, those dreams are in ruins.
The actress has been arrested for the murder of a notorious newspaper columnist, and the evidence against her is damning. Desperate, Kit turns to the last person likely to help him: the dowager. Unfortunately for her, Isabella cannot resist a mystery.
She soon discovers that the dead man did far more than write vicious theatrical gossip. Behind his newspaper columns lay a lucrative trade in other people’s secrets, and actors, producers, politicians, and some of New York’s most respectable families all had reason to want him silenced.
Investigating a murder is one thing. Publicly defending an accused actress is quite another.
As the newspapers seize on Isabella’s involvement and Fifth Avenue society begins whispering her name for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself at the centre of a scandal of her own.
With an innocent woman’s life at stake and a killer determined to keep the dead man’s secrets buried, Isabella must uncover the truth before her search for a murderer turns her into New York’s most notorious heiress.
Genre: Historical Mystery
When Isabella’s aunt falls ill, she persuades Lady Arlene Archibald and a reluctant Dowager Countess of Pembroke to accompany her across the Atlantic. Unlike Isabella’s previous voyage, which involved the disappearance of a priceless emerald necklace, this journey is mercifully uneventful.
The peace ends the moment they arrive in New York.
Waiting on the dock is Christopher ‘Kit’ Bailey, the flamboyant theatrical impresario and the dowager’s sworn nemesis. Kit has come to America with dreams of conquering Broadway and a talented young actress he is certain will become its newest star.
Within a day, those dreams are in ruins.
The actress has been arrested for the murder of a notorious newspaper columnist, and the evidence against her is damning. Desperate, Kit turns to the last person likely to help him: the dowager. Unfortunately for her, Isabella cannot resist a mystery.
She soon discovers that the dead man did far more than write vicious theatrical gossip. Behind his newspaper columns lay a lucrative trade in other people’s secrets, and actors, producers, politicians, and some of New York’s most respectable families all had reason to want him silenced.
Investigating a murder is one thing. Publicly defending an accused actress is quite another.
As the newspapers seize on Isabella’s involvement and Fifth Avenue society begins whispering her name for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself at the centre of a scandal of her own.
With an innocent woman’s life at stake and a killer determined to keep the dead man’s secrets buried, Isabella must uncover the truth before her search for a murderer turns her into New York’s most notorious heiress.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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