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With the WZ book Club, I'm
Jordan Rich. Broadway Butterfly is the brand

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new thriller by Sarah Devello, and
it's based on an unsolved true crime featuring

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real life historical characters, and it's
a page turner. The year's nineteen twenty

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three and Dot King, a voluptuous
blonde party girl, is found murdered in

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her New York West Side apartment.
Dot had been the mistress of a super

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wealthy, middle aged man. At
the same time she was the lover of

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another, a primary suspect in the
murder, a fast talking swindler. Real

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characters come to life, including Julia
Hartman, crime reporter for the New York

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Daily News, who does her best
to solve the crime. There's the frustrated

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tough cop, the glad handing DA
Number one New York gangster Arnold Rothstein,

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President Warren G. Harding, and
members of his corrupt administration. Nuckie Johnson,

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the real life protagonist of Boardwalk Empire. You're transported back a hundred years

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to a true crime event, a
murder that gripped the nation. Broadway Butterfly

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by Sarah Devello. The book club
WZ Boston's news radio,