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The sensational murder of
Dr. Harvey Burdell in his lower Manhattan
home made front-page news across the United
States in 1857. “Who killed Dr. Burdell?”
was a question that gripped our nation. 31
BOND STREET, a debut novel by Ellen Horan,
interweaves fiction with actual events in a
clever historical narrative that blends
romance, politics, greed and sexual intrigue
in a suspenseful drama.
The story opens when an errand boy discovers
Burdell’s body in the bedroom of his posh
Bond Street home. The novel’s central
characters are Dr. Harvey Burdell, a dentist
and unscrupulous businessman; his lover, the
ambitious, Brooklyn-born Emma Cunningham;
the District Attorney, Abraham Oakey Hall
(later to become mayor of New York); and
Henry Clinton, a prominent defense lawyer.
The enigmatic relationship between Emma and
Dr. Burdell makes her the prime suspect, and
her trial is nothing less than sensational...
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