The Girl from Greenwich Street A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America's First Murder Trial
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Erscheinungsdatum
04.03.2025
Verlag
HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
352 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
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9780063306134
This is historical fiction at its best. -Book Reporter
Based on the true story of a famous trial, this gripping historical mystery is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyoneand no oneseemed to know.
At the start of a new century, a shocking murder in 1800s New York transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows.
Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin's boarding houseand doesn't come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knowsuntil her body appears in the Manhattan Well.
Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma.
But privately, quietly, Levi's wealthy brother calls in a special favor....
Aaron Burr's legal practice can't finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines.
Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn't going to let Burr monopolize the public's attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man's lifeand destroy each other.
Part murder mystery, part political thriller, part true crime, The Girl From Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of historywith a surprising twist ending that reveals the true story of the woman at the center of the tale.
A real triumph! In Lauren Willig's brilliant retelling of one of the most famous murder trials in American history, she brings to poignant life its most forgotten figure the high-spirited young woman whose killing was used by the trial's lawyers, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, for their own political ends. Willig gives us a masterful portrait of the many perils of being a woman in this country's earliest years. Lynne Olsen, New York Times bestselling author of Empress of the Nile
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