The Jefferson Hotel Mirror: Room 202 and a 1920s Murder

By: Hamele, Scott

The Jefferson Hotel Mirror: Room 202 and a 1920s Murder. In the summer of 1928, socialite Elizabeth "Beth" Davis arrives at the storied Jefferson Hotel in Richmond for a week of political gatherings and Southern society pageantry. While her husband attends Democratic meetings during a heated presidential election year, Beth begins to experience unsettling dreams tied to Room 202-the suite she and her father once shared years earlier.

A mirror in the room seems to reflect more than her own image. It reveals fragments of another summer in the 1920s-whispers of secret meetings, tense political alliances, and the shadow of a young man whose death was quietly buried by the city's elite.

As Beth follows a trail through old hotel registers and newspaper archives, she uncovers a story that challenges everything she believed about family, legacy, and the polished world of old Virginia wealth. What begins as curiosity deepens into a reckoning with the past-one that threatens reputations, political ambitions, and the fragile bond between a daughter and her father.

Some rooms remember. And some mirrors refuse to forget.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWLX92GW
• ISBN13: 9798295785078
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Schuyler & Sons Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"