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The Bishop and the Butterfly
Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
Buch von Michael Wolraich
Sprache: Englisch

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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 filled with hundreds of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters, and bootleggers. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by the governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes; many suspected that Vivian Gordon had been executed to bury her secrets. As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury doggedly pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful political machine--the infamous Tammany Hall. A final dramatic showdown between Seabury and playboy mayor Jimmy Walker precipitated Tammany's downfall and cleared the way for FDR's presidency.
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 filled with hundreds of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters, and bootleggers. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by the governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes; many suspected that Vivian Gordon had been executed to bury her secrets. As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury doggedly pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful political machine--the infamous Tammany Hall. A final dramatic showdown between Seabury and playboy mayor Jimmy Walker precipitated Tammany's downfall and cleared the way for FDR's presidency.
Über den Autor
Michael Wolraich is the author of the critically acclaimed Unreasonable Men (2014) and Blowing Smoke (2010). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, New York magazine, Reuters, and CNN, and he is the founder and editor of [...]. Wolraich grew up in Iowa and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts before falling in love with New York City, where he has lived since 2000.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 352
ISBN-13: 9781454948025
ISBN-10: 1454948027
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wolraich, Michael
Hersteller: Union Square & Co.
Maße: 162 x 239 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Wolraich
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,674 kg
preigu-id: 127331225
Über den Autor
Michael Wolraich is the author of the critically acclaimed Unreasonable Men (2014) and Blowing Smoke (2010). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, New York magazine, Reuters, and CNN, and he is the founder and editor of [...]. Wolraich grew up in Iowa and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts before falling in love with New York City, where he has lived since 2000.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 352
ISBN-13: 9781454948025
ISBN-10: 1454948027
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wolraich, Michael
Hersteller: Union Square & Co.
Maße: 162 x 239 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Wolraich
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,674 kg
preigu-id: 127331225
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