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

Author: Michael Wolraich

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2024

Synopsis

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.

About Michael Wolraich

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 dagblog.com. 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.

About Kirsten Potter

Kirsten Potter is an award-winning audiobook narrator who has performed on stage, film, and television. A graduate of Boston University's School for the Arts, she has received recognition from the American Academy of Achievement and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mary thomson

Terrific read The research was impressive. The book reads like a murder mystery page turner but for anyone interested in New York City history and politics at the end of the jazz age this is a terrific book. I highly recommend it......more

Goodreads review by Calista

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC of this book. This book was very interesting. I loved how it portrayed the butterfly effect of a murder leading to the dismantling of years of corruption. The author really tells this like a story and that helps the reader to be able to comprehend......more

Goodreads review by Beverly

The ever intriguing look at how the murder investigation of Vivian Gordon brought down the corruption going on in NYC It brought to light the stranglehold the mafia had on the city and it’s inner workings from the traffic cop up through the police top brass and ultimately encircling the mayor., and......more

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