Murder in the Gilded CageSamuel SpewackOmniClassics · Literature
Murder in the Gilded Cage
Samuel SpewackA press agent recounts the death of the wealthy woman whose public image he helped manage.
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About the book
After reporting on Dora Breese's sensational divorce, the narrator enters her service and becomes involved in the luxurious, uneasy world surrounding her. A yacht, a Havana residence, her children, and the men attached to her all figure in a social circle already accustomed to publicity and suspicion. Her death brings investigators into that circle and forces apparently familiar relationships to be reconsidered. The narrator presents his account as a correction to rumors, giving the story the tension of testimony from someone who knows both the participants and the machinery of scandal. Samuel Spewack combines a murder investigation with a view of wealth as an enclosure, where private resentments can become difficult to escape or interpret.
- Wealth and confinement
- Publicity and truth
- Hidden resentment
Why read it
Read a society mystery filtered through a witness whose profession is the management of appearances.
English novel by Samuel Spewack, copyright 1929