Broadway Butterfly
Book description
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…
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Characters leap off the page in this novel based on a true crime that occurred in 1920s Prohibition-era New York City. I don’t often read true-crime novels, but this one is exceptional.
The story is a fictional telling of the aftermath of a scandalous crime: the murder of a Broadway party girl. The story’s point of view rotates among several people drawn into the crime’s orbit. The viewpoints offer a lens on how people of various social classes, occupations, races, and ethnicities maneuvered through—and were affected by—the era’s rules, restrictions, prejudices, and biases.
The leading voice is based on a…
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