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

By Michael Wolraich
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Unabridged — 11 hours, 28 minutes
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By Michael Wolraich
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Unabridged — 11 hours, 28 minutes
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A scandalous look at police corruption in the 1930s, The Bishop and the Butterfly is a true crime delight that will resonate with modern societal themes as well as give you an enticing window into the little-known story of a classic femme fatale. Perfect for fans of Erik Larsen, this is nonfiction that sizzles.

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 con...