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

by Michael Wolraich

Book Overview

"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York."--New York Times
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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1454948027
• ISBN13: 9781454948025
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"