Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The New Yorker Weighs In

From the August 27, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, which features Butchery on Bond Street in its Briefly Noted column on page 89: Feldman collates popular accounts with archival research-—the coroner, he finds, brought witnesses to the murder site and interrogated them in Burdell’s dentist’s chair—and tells the story like a gaslight-era episode of “Law & Order.”


Thank you , Eustace Tilly !