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The Bishop and the Butterfly

Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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The Bishop and the Butterfly

Written by: Michael Wolraich
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
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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.

©2024 Michael Wolraich (P)2024 Dreamscape Media
Americas True Crime United States Franklin D Roosevelt

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Murder in the dirty underbelly of NYC

This book is as much a book about New York City in the 30’s as it is about the murder at its core. That was a pleasant surprise, as I expected the city to be more of a backdrop, and I learned a lot more about the mob, corruption and municipal politics than I had known previously, so much so that I feel more inclined than ever to learn about the mob families. Having said that, this strong, independent and influential woman was heartlessly murdered in a way that rendered many suspects. It was interesting to hear how the truth came out.

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