The Great Mistake

An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century,about one man’s rise to fame and fortuneand his mysterious murderΓÇöΓÇ£engrossingΓÇ¥ (Wall Street Journal)ΓÇ£immersiveΓÇ¥ (The New Yorker)and ΓÇ£seriously entertainingΓÇ¥ (The Sunday TimesLondon). Andrew Haswell Green is deadshot at the venerable age of eighty-threewhen he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killingΓÇöon Park Avenue in broad daylighton Friday the thirteenthΓÇöshook the city. Born to a struggling farmerGreen was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Parkno Metropolitan Museum of Artno Museum of Natural Historyno New York Public Library. But Green had a secreta life locked within him that nowin the hour of his deathmay finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotionThe Great Mistake is the story of a city transformeda murder that made a private man infamousand a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to himΓÇöyet enlarged it.