Bar Harbor Babylon murder, misfortune, and scandal on Mount Desert Island
"In its heyday, Mount Desert was a wild oasis where the summercators could carry on in comparative privacy. Today, unfortunately, unlike Las Vegas, what happened on Mount Desert doesn't always stay on Mount Desert. The scandals that were the talk of the picnics and outings that filled the summer vis...
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Camden, Maine :
Down East Books,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- It's a rich man's world
- The man who stole Cadillac Mountain
- The fabulous McLeans and their Hoodoo diamond
- Joseph Pulitzer and his tower of silence
- The Stotesburys send the better people packing
- Love, marriage and misery
- J.P. Morgan can't fool anyone
- The alimony king and his alimony queen
- Breaking up is hard to do-Vanderbilt style
- The many, many, many loves of Cornelia Baxter
- The wealthy teenaged widow who wanted to be alone
- Political bad boys
- Daddies dearest
- No dynasty for Jimmy
- The duchess of Dix Island
- The Louisiana lottery king builds a seaside mansion
- Mount Desert welcomes the KKK
- Nelson Rockefeller lands on the rocks
- Crimes and misdemeanors
- A royal mess : the Harry Oakes murder
- A serial killer is born
- The Flatiron murder
- Prohibition follies : three for the road
- Oddities, misfits and miscellaneous downfalls
- You can't get good help
- Abraham Somes and the rum
- Jackson Labs' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The many, many, mad, mad Hoyts
- They came, they summered, they mystified.
