Clark Memorial Library

Davis's Magnolia Palace takes place in and around the Henry Clay Frick residence. While currently an art museum in New York City, the Frick residence was once home to a patron of the arts, and the narrative tags along with two women, Lillian, an artists' model turned secretary in 1919, and Veronica, an English model in the tail end of the 1960s, as Lillian gets tangled and twisted in a web of life-or-death Clay family drama and Veronica, half a century later, follows the clues about a murder in the Frick family.

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Davis is celebrated as having shone a light upon a New York landmark with this book, quick and captivating all at once, and a good read for anyone interested in the dark glamour of the arts.