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A Gilded Age Murder and Mystery

By Kyle Kellams
Published January 24, 2023 at 1:22 PM CST
Maria Burton Dorsey (right) depicted arguing with her father, Benjamin Burton (left), a week before his death.
Camilla Sucre
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Courtesy of Narratively
"A Gilded Age Tale of Murder and Madness" follows the death of a wealthy and admired Black businessman in Newport, R.I.

Two writers with deep Northwest Arkansas ties havecollaborated on writing about a murder from 1885.

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Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of <i>Ozarks at Large.</i>
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