The House at Lobster Cove

George Nixon Black spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight. In an art—filled townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill and in the architectural masterpiece Kragsyde, his house at Lobster Cove, he lived in obscurity, harboring a secret of violence and a secret of love.

If Black were mentioned at all in his time, it was almost as rumor. As Boston's largest taxpayer he traveled to the opera in a carriage that was the envy of his peers. Glimpsed on the street, it was usually only with one of his beloved ...