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Bezig met laden... Broadway Butterfly: A Thrillerdoor Sara Divello
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I was looking forward to reading this book for a while, ever since I heard Sara Divello talk about how she became interested in the story. However, it didn't live up to my expectations. Although it was interesting, I thought it dragged at times, and the ending left me with more questions than answers. I did enjoy the author's notes at the end, and the info on all the people. When Ella Bradford comes to Dot King's apartment one morning to find her employer dead, she is distraught. She contacts the police, but they botch the investigation, and then later cover up the murder. Julia Harpman, a newspaper writer, chases the story and refuses to let it die. She attacks the story and uncovers more details than expected. However, the story is never truly finished, and as the years pass, it is obvious that some people get away with murder. Dot King is the Broadway Butterfly, a 29 year-old woman who drinks a lot and has many partners. She is murdered one night using chloroform. Her two main men are under suspicion for her murder. One is a violent gigolo. The other is extremely rich and well connected and manages to shut down the investigation. Julia Harpman is a crime beat newspaperman for the New York Daily News. She writes many columns about the case and tries to get the police to investigate it. People who have information about the crime are either ignored by the DA who puts pressure on the police to drop the case. The corruption goes all the way to Warren Harding's White House staff and the Attorney General of the United States. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective John D. Coughlin, struggling against city corruption; and Ella Bradford, the victim's Harlem maid, closest confidante, and keeper of secrets. Adding fuel to the already volatile crime: a politically connected Philadelphia socialite, an Atlantic City bootlegger, Dot's dicey gigolo lover, a sultry Broadway dancer, and a cagey sugar daddy guarding secrets of his own. From Broadway's glittering lights to its sordid underbelly to the machinations of the country's most powerful men, Julia embarks on a quest for justice. What she discovers, twist after breathtaking twist, might be even more nefarious than murder" -- Publisher marketing. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Dot was a model, a showgirl, a get-around, a ladder climber. She knew what she wanted and had the skills to get it until she was killed. The investigation surrounding her murder ensnared female crime reporter (a true rarity in the day) Julia Harpman and police inspector John Coughlin as they parried against one another, trying to learn the truth of whodunnit: The illustrious John Kearsley Mitchell III, son-in-law of the infamous E.T. Stotesbury of J.P. Morgan fame, or the slimy gigolo Albert Guiarmes; both of whom were Dot's lovers.
Oh, the twists and turns in this real-life drama. The housekeeper knows more than she telling. The dancer-friend who knows something but not much. The alibi for Guiarmes, who ends up dead. The wife of Mitchell who becomes socially ostracised. And the President of the United States, who has a tie in all this. Well done, Sara DiVello.
While the Broadway Butterfly will not change history, it is fascinating to read how things were 'back in the day' and how far we've come or not.
You will enjoy this one. ( )