The Girl From Greenwich StreetThe Girl From Greenwich Street
a Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America's First Murder Trial
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Large Print, 2025
Current format, Large Print, 2025, First William Morrow Large Print edition, Available .Bitter rivals Hamilton and Burr unite to defend a carpenter accused of murdering Elma Sands, a mysterious young woman found in a well, intertwining a high-profile trial with their own political ambitions and personal enmity.
Based on the true story, this is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the killing of a young woman everyone-and no one-seemed to know. At the start of a new century, a heinous murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. In 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin's boarding house--and doesn't come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows--until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her, a carpenter named Levi Weeks. Defending Levi Weeks is a double win for Aaron Burr: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines. Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations and won't be overshadowed by Burr. Together they race against time to save a man's life--and destroy each other. The Girl from Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of history in a tale with a surprise twist ending.
Based on the true story, this is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the killing of a young woman everyone-and no one-seemed to know. At the start of a new century, a heinous murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. In 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin's boarding house--and doesn't come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows--until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her, a carpenter named Levi Weeks. Defending Levi Weeks is a double win for Aaron Burr: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines. Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations and won't be overshadowed by Burr. Together they race against time to save a man's life--and destroy each other. The Girl from Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of history in a tale with a surprise twist ending.
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- New York, NY : William Morrow Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
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