The Belle of Bedford Avenue : the Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York.
In 1902, 20-year-old Walter Brooks, the scion of an affluent Brooklyn family, was murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel. The subsequent trial of Florence Burns, the young woman accused of the murder, made front-page news across the country and shocked New York society. This true crime tale sheds new l...
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