Who Killed The Broadway Butterfly
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Who Killed The Broadway Butterfly
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Author : George Anthony
language : en
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Release Date : 2002-07-10
Who Killed The Broadway Butterfly written by George Anthony and has been published by PublishAmerica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-10 with Fiction categories.
In New York City's unruly Roaring 20s, model and promising starlet Dot King was chloroformed to death at the age of 28. Her murder went unsolved. Retired law enforcement officer George Anthony applied modern technology, police science, and non-stop plodding to the investigation of this long-cold case.
The Broadway Butterfly Murders
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Author : Tip Bliss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Broadway Butterfly Murders written by Tip Bliss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Broadway (New York, N.Y.) categories.
Broadway Butterfly
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Author : Sara DiVello
language : en
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Release Date : 2023-08
Broadway Butterfly written by Sara DiVello and has been published by Thomas & Mercer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08 with Fiction categories.
New York in the Roaring Twenties--a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective John D. Coughlin, struggling against city corruption; and Ella Bradford, the victim's Harlem maid, closest confidante, and keeper of secrets. Adding fuel to the already volatile crime: a politically connected Philadelphia socialite, an Atlantic City bootlegger, Dot's dicey gigolo lover, a sultry Broadway dancer, and a cagey sugar daddy guarding secrets of his own. From Broadway's glittering lights to its sordid underbelly to the machinations of the country's most powerful men, Julia embarks on a quest for justice. What she discovers, twist after breathtaking twist, might be even more nefarious than murder.
Broadway Butterfly Vivian Gordon
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Author : Anthony M. DeStefano
language : en
Publisher: Citadel Press
Release Date : 2024-06-25
Broadway Butterfly Vivian Gordon written by Anthony M. DeStefano and has been published by Citadel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-25 with History categories.
The definitive book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort, con artist, and blackmailer connected to gangsters like “Legs” Diamond and Arnold Rothstein, whose death exposed the dark underbelly of police corruption throughout the city—from the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist who is one of the foremost Mafia experts writing today. Like so many other pretty butterflies, Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con woman. But given her dangerously intimate associations—from ruthless underworld gangsters to corrupt high-ranking city officials—Vivian was also a woman who knew too much and who rightfully feared for her life. On February 26, 1931, Vivian’s bludgeoned and garroted body was found dumped in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. Now, in the first in-depth biography of its kind, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano unravels her tumultuous life and the headline-making murder that became an obsession for many, including then-Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The evidence Vivian left behind was damning: a diary with more than three-hundred names implicating powerful officials, philanthropists, businessmen, and every major gangland figure in collusion and corruption. The investigation eventually resulted in the career-endinginvestigation of James “Jimmy” Walker, disgraced mayor of New York City. Ultimately, Broadway Butterfly finally finds a place in history for Vivian, a woman with a rare legacy in gangster lore, whose demise was as tragically inevitable as the brutality of the city’s demimondeduring Prohibition.
The Pilot S Daughter
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Author : Meredith Jaeger
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-11-02
The Pilot S Daughter written by Meredith Jaeger and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Fiction categories.
The glitzy days of 1920s New York meet the devastation of those left behind in World War II in a new, delectable historical novel from USA Today bestselling author Meredith Jaeger. In the final months of World War II, San Francisco newspaper secretary Ellie Morgan should be planning her wedding and subsequent exit from the newsroom into domestic life. Instead, Ellie, who harbors dreams of having her own column, is using all the skills she's learned as a would-be reporter to try to uncover any scrap of evidence that her missing pilot father is still alive. But when she discovers a stack of love letters from a woman who is not her mother in his possessions, her already fragile world goes into a tailspin, and she vows to find out the truth about the father she loves—and the woman who loved him back. When Ellie arrives on her aunt Iris's doorstep, clutching a stack of letters and uttering a name Iris hasn't heard in decades, Iris is terrified. She's hidden her past as a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl from her family, and her experiences in New York City in the 1920s could reveal much more than the origin of her brother-in-law's alleged affair. Iris's heady days in the spotlight weren't enough to outshine the darker underbelly of Jazz Age New York, and she's spent the past twenty years believing that her actions in those days led to murder. Together the two women embark on a cross-country mission to find the truth in the City That Never Sleeps, a journey that just might shatter everything they thought they knew—not only about the past but about their own futures. Inspired by a true Jazz Age murder cold case that captivated the nation, and the fact that more than 72,000 Americans still remain unaccounted for from World War II, The Pilot's Daughter is a page-turning exploration of the stories we tell ourselves and of how well we can truly know those we love.
Wicked Washington
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Author : Troy Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2007-11-30
Wicked Washington written by Troy Taylor and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-30 with History categories.
America’s seat of power is also the seat of corruption, killings, and salacious scandals—from the author of Haunted New Orleans. An addictive and fascinating read that traces the criminal history of our nation’s capital, from the bloody site of the city’s most famous murder to dark deeds involving politicians from both sides of the aisle. Includes a look at the mysteries surrounding the Lincoln assassination, death by duels, the infamous “Washington Vampire,” presidential mysteries and scandals and the strange tale of the first murderer to be found guilty by reason of insanity—a man who went on to lead troops during the Civil War. Includes photos!
The Butterfly Murder
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Author : Charlton Andrews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
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Madam
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Author : Debby Applegate
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2021-11-02
Madam written by Debby Applegate and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America. "A fast-paced tale of … Polly’s many court battles, newspaper headlines, mobster dealings and society gossip…. A breathless tale told through extraordinary research.” —The New York Times Book Review Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld—and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.
The Bishop And The Butterfly
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Author : Michael Wolraich
language : en
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Release Date : 2024-02-06
The Bishop And The Butterfly written by Michael Wolraich and has been published by Union Square & Co. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with True Crime categories.
The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall’s dominance. 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.
The American Mercury
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Author : George Jean Nathan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
The American Mercury written by George Jean Nathan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.