The days are receiving shorter as summer’s end approaches, which means it’s time for the Harvest Festival, the final special day of the growing season, held by Mamie Fish, wife of millionaire railroad tycoon Stuyvesant Fish, at their grand ‘cottage,’ Crossways. The neocolonial mansion is certainly decked out in artificial fall months splendor, and an extravagant scavenger hunt will become held. However the crowning jewel of the evening would be the guest of honor, Prince Otto of Austria.

As acting editor-in-chief of the Newport about Murder at Crossways Messenger, Emma had hoped to leave her days like a society reporter behind her. But in the last moment, she must complete and attend the Harvest Event. With nearly every eligible girl of Newport high society in attendance, Emma can nearly hear romantic dreams shattering like cup house slippers when the prince fails to appear. Another morning, he is found useless in the medial side backyard at Crossways, making it obvious a murderer crashed the party.

The prince has been stabbed very much the same as another guy, recently found on nearby Bailey’s Beach-who strongly resembles Emma’s half-brother Brady’s father, presumed lifeless for nearly thirty years after a yachting mishap. As Emma investigates a connection between both victims, she actually is joined on the hunt by Mamie Seafood herself. However they must hurry-before the killer slips apart like the fading summer .