A True-Life Thriller, ‘The Bishop and the Butterfly’ Bursts With the Scoundrels, Miscreants, and Opportunists of 1930s New York
Author Michael Wolraich has a journalist’s eye for the telling detail and a novelist’s knack for the salacious, the colorful, and the too good to be true. Or, perhaps it is better said, too bad to be fictional.
‘The Bishop and the Butterfly’
By Michael Wolraich
Union Square & Co.
The insect mentioned in the title of “The Bishop and the Butterfly,” a new book by Michael Wolraich, refers to a specific individual: Vivian Gordon, a woman with a knack for poetry, an eye for fashion, and a moral compass whose parameters were generous and, in the end, deadly. Gordon’s body was found at the Bronx’s Van Cortlandt Park on February 26, 1931. She was 39 years old, the victim of strangulation.
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