The Great Mistake, Lee - C

                  This is an odd novel about someone who should be very well-known in NYC, but is not. Andrew Green, who was murdered in 1903, at the age of 83 was known as  the father of New York. He was a very successful lawyer, law partner of Governor Samuel Tilden, and the man behind the Metropolitan Museum, the Natural History Museum, Central Park and the 1898 merger of Brooklyn into the city of New York. The novel hints at a homosexual relationship between Green and Tilden.  His murder was a case of mistaken identity, front page news and of interest to his good friend, President Roosevelt. Notwithstanding my disinterest, the critics loved it.