Author : Ellen Horan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007304048
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Book Synopsis 31 Bond Street by : Ellen Horan
Download or read book 31 Bond Street written by Ellen Horan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell in his opulent Manhattan town house? At once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age, 31 Bond Street is a spellbinding tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics in 1857 New York. Author Ellen Horan interweaves fact and fiction--reimagining the sensational nineteenth-century crime that rocked the city a few short years before the Civil War ripped through the fabric of the nation, while transporting readers back to a time that eerily echoes our own. Though there are no clues to the brutal slaying of wealthy Dr. Burdell, suspicion quickly falls on Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed his house and servants. An ambitious district attorney seeks a swift conviction, but defense attorney Henry Clinton is a formidable obstacle--a man firmly committed to justice and the law, and to the cause of a frightened, vulnerable woman desperately trying to save herself from the gallows.