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Author Wolraich, Michael, author.

Title The bishop and the butterfly : murder, politics, and the end of the Jazz Age / Michael Wolraich.

Publication Info. New York : Union Square & Co., [2023]
©2023
6 holds on first copy returned of 6 copies

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  364.1523 WOLRAICH    DUE 04-06-24
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  364.152 WOLRAICH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - ON-ORDER (not available yet)    On Order
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  364 WOL    DUE 04-09-24
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult New Nonfiction  364.1523 WOLRAICH    On Holdshelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - ON-ORDER (not available yet)    On Order +1 HOLD
Description xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, 24 cm
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Gordon, Vivian, 1891-1931.
Murder -- Investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
Tammany Hall (Political organization)
Murder -- Investigation.
Genre/Form True crime stories.
Added Title Murder, politics, and the end of the Jazz Age
ISBN 1454948027 hardcover
9781454948025 hardcover
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