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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.

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"""Reads like a cross between a whodunnit and a political expos�. Both stories provide plenty of suspects, false leads, and rabbit trails, but unraveling one holds the key to unraveling the other."" -- ""New York Journal of Books"" ""Wolraich does a sterling job spinning the investigation into a portrait of wider New York society, all while keeping the pages turning as quickly as in any top-shelf mystery novel."" -- ""Publisher's Weekly (starred review)"""

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Michael Wolraich is the author of the critically acclaimed books, including Unreasonable Men and Blowing Smoke, among others. 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. 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.

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