{"product_id":"31-bond-street-9780061773976","title":"31 Bond Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The skill with which Ellen Horan has braided true crime with thoughtful novelizing is pure pleasure. . . . Caleb Carr meets Scott Turow. What could possibly be better?\" -- Beverly Swerling, author of \u003cem\u003eCity of God \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An impressive blend of imagination and history as it vividly brings to life one of New York's City's most notorious crimes.\" -- Ron Rash, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eSerena \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age, \u003cem\u003e31 Bond Street\u003c\/em\u003e is a spellbinding tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics in 1857 New York. Author Ellen Horan interweaves fact and fiction--reimagining the sensational nineteenth-century brutal murder that rocked the city a few short years before the Civil War ripped through the fabric of the nation, while transporting readers back to a time that eerily echoes our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough there are no clues to the slaying of wealthy Dr. Harvey Burdell, suspicion quickly falls on Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed his house and servants. An ambitious district attorney seeks a swift conviction, but defense attorney Henry Clinton is a formidable obstacle--a man firmly committed to justice and the law, and to the cause of a frightened, vulnerable woman desperately trying to save herself from the gallows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of Caleb Carr's \u003cem\u003eThe Alienist\u003c\/em\u003e, Edith Wharton's \u003cem\u003eThe House of Myrth\u003c\/em\u003e, and John Berendt's \u003cem\u003eMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil\u003c\/em\u003e will love the stunning prose and beautiful imagery of this riveting novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061773976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.38w x 0.97d","brand":"Ellen Horan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916741841077,"sku":"9780061773976","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b1a5709d-513f-4759-9fc2-81d26a362c3d.jpg?v=1687269884","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/31-bond-street-9780061773976","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}