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Emma Campbell performs at the Hudson Valley’s Six Bells Inn.
Photographer: Gabriela Herman for Bloomberg Businessweek
The evening’s fete has become the scene of an unthinkable crime. Our hosts, a gossip columnist and a prominent socialite, were just organizing the flowers when the lights flickered off and on to reveal that one guest had been murdered — stabbed, her body still warm in the other room.
The rest of the party starts looking around at one another. One buffoonish novelist and his intoxicated, womanizing brother would like to have a word with everybody on the premises, including me.