THE BISHOP AND THE BUTTERFLY: Murder, Politics, and the End of The Jazz Age

Vivian Gordon was found in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names. And a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor FDR. Led by Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame woman as prostitutes. Well illus.