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The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

Wolraich, Michael

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"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York."--New York Times
Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful political machine--the infamous Tammany Hall.

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Publisher
UNION SQUARE & CO
Bisac Major Subject
True Crime
Binding Type
Hardcover
Country Of Origin
US
Number Of Units
1
Length
9.13 Inches
Barcode Indicator
EAN
Width
5.91 Inches
Publication Date
1970-01-01
Height
1.42 Inches
ISBN 10
1454948027
Weight
1.45 Pounds
Book EAN
9781454948025
Target Audiance
Adults

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