The girl from Greenwich Street

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At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 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. Handbills circulate around the ci...

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