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The Downtown Express: Butchery on Bond Street

Melissa Korn of The Downtown Express published a thorough review of Butchery on Bond Street which is quoted below in its entirety from that paper’s October 12-18, 2007 issue: In death, a dentist’s life becomes gripping By Melissa Korn There’s something oddly enthralling about a murder mystery — not just the whodunnit element, but the […]

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Investor Trades Towers for Life as an Author

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Sex, Lies, Murder, and History: Talk at the Museum of Sex

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Columbia Law School Bulletin Article re “Butchery on Bond Street”

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Green-Wood Book Talks a Big Hit

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New York Times: A Lurid Tale From 1857 Is Revived in Granite

A Lurid Tale From 1857 Is Revived in Granite by Andy Newman Published September 19, 2007 Back in 1857, they were the hottest names in old New-York. Harvey Burdell and Emma Cunningham — the violent, rapacious and brutally murdered society dentist and his scheming and probably murderous mistress, mutual antagonists in the most lurid true-crime […]

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Newsday: Late Notice for Odd Couple

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1857 Scandal Laid to Rest

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The New Yorker: Butchery on Bond Street

The New Yorker Briefly Noted August 27, 2007 Butchery On Bond Street, by Benjamin Feldman (Green-Wood Cemetery Historic Fund/New York Wanderer Press; $24.95. In January, 1857, Harvey Burdell, a dentist with a taste for lowlife, was found stabbed to death in his quarters, on Bond Street, igniting one of the most famous murder scandals in […]

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Stella, STELLA KOWALSKI!!!

For a decade and a half I suffered from nerve twinges and occasional numbness in my right arm and shoulder. Nothing seemed to help. One sorry attempt at homeopathy years ago brought only yellow pee from ingesting great gobs of Vitamin B-something. But having just turned 55, and sensing more than ever my body falling […]

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