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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]