The Girl from Greenwich Street A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America's First Murder Trial

Lauren Willig

eBook - 2025

Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone—and no one—seemed to know.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 city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But priv...ately, quietly, Levi's wealthy brother calls in a special favor....Aaron Burr's legal practice can't finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York... more