Hello, this is Carl Raymond, host of the Gilded Gentleman History Podcast, where every two weeks we journey into worlds, and dark in America's Gilded Age,

Francis Bellepuc, and England's late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

New York, like most major cities, has its share of iconic landmarks.

Some of those landmarks include

great museums, libraries, theaters, and even grand apartment buildings that tell the story of

the city's history over its long lifespan, and particularly in New York's great gilded age.

Historians have told many of these stories,

but sometimes, to get a different view,

an angle of history perhaps not expected,

a surprising glimpse of perception,

well, for that, one can turn to fiction.

The beloved and popular novels

of New York Times' best-selling author Fiona Davis do

just that. Fiona's novels are set in some of New York's most famous spots from the

Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Story Dakota apartment building and even to Radio City Music Hall.

Reading one, you'll travel from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age and beyond,

and see behind the scenes of New York's exclusive worlds of art and fashion.

Fiona deftly weaves history with fiction to arrive at an emotional understanding of

people and places that we otherwise may never discover.

And best of all, there's a little mystery in here too.

Sometimes based on actual events and sometimes elements of pure fiction that resolve into deeply satisfying conclusions, but in the process have given us a look

into the very human sides of a number of history's most well-known names.

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