31 Bond Street
By: Ellen Horan
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444806175
Subjects: Death and burial; History; Murder; Trials (Murder); Legal stories; Widows; Fiction
Other titles: Thirty-one Bond Street
Description: Who killed Dr Harvey Burdell? Four years before the outbreak of the American Civil War, this is the question that grips the country. In New York, the brutally stabbed and nearly decapitated body of a society dentist is found in his town house at 31 Bond Street in lower Manhattan. All the evidence points to his elegant and mysterious lodger and housekeeper, Emma Cunningham, who is immediately put under arrest and soon charged with murder. A conviction is sure to catapult flamboyant district attorney Abraham Oakey Hall into the mayor's seat. But one formidable obstacle stands in his way: the defence attorney, Henry Clinton, who risks his whole career to help prove the vulnerable widow's innocence.