The Bishop and the Butterfly : : Murder, Politics, and the end of the Jazz Age
Book - 2023 364.152 Wo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / True Crime / Wolraich, Michael None on shelf 8 requests on 2 copies
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"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"-- Amazon.com
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PUBLISHED
New York : Union Square & Co., [2023]
Year Published: 2023
Description: 336 pages : illustrations, 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1454948027
9781454948025
SUBJECTS
Gordon, Vivian, -- 1891-1931.
Tammany Hall (Political organization)
Murder -- History -- New York -- 20th century.
Police corruption -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Political corruption -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.