The Godmother

Eunice Carter’s descendents remember her as an austere woman, with a tendency to correct grammar and table manners. Throughout her career, Eunice sought to make a mark on history. She yearned to create a legacy.  Did she succeed? And why does it matter to be remembered?  The Godmother is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel visit novel.audio [http://novel.audio/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Lucky Luciano’s conviction sits atop a rising wave of public panic about the seeping influence of crime and corruption on American life.  It’s a perception that’s been mythologised in Hollywood retellings about the mob for decades. The idea of an all-powerful mafia served Thomas Dewey’s professional ambitions well too, but how much of it was actually true? The Godmother is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel visit novel.audio [http://novel.audio/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

In the summer of 1936, New York watches with baited breath, as Lucky Luciano stands trial. He’s been charged alongside some of organized crime's most violent strongmen.  Their fate sits in the hands of Eunice’s witnesses: a handful of sex workers, many of whom are experiencing brutal heroin withdrawal as they sit on the witness stand.  This stand-off would become known as the trial of the century. So why isn’t Eunice Carter in court to see the results of all her painstaking work? The Godmother is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel visit novel.audio [http://novel.audio/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

In 1935, Eunice Carter is at the center of the largest investigation of organized crime in U.S. history. Meanwhile, there's a power struggle raging in the heart of organized crime and as the dust settles, Lucky Luciano finds himself at the top. As Lucky’s star rises, Eunice finds herself sidelined with the beat nobody seems to want: investigating mob links to New York’s sex work industry. As she pieces together seemingly innocuous pieces of gossip - a picture begins to emerge. Eunice forms a plan that leads her right to Lucky Luciano. The Godmother is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel visit novel.audio [http://novel.audio/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

While Eunice learns the letter of the law, her neighbors in Harlem are surviving by breaking it, and the mob’s power over nearly every facet of New York life grows stronger.  New Yorkers are looking for a crusader, and in Thomas Dewey they find one. He’s New York’s newest mob-busting special prosecutor, and he finds himself in need of a certain plucky young attorney, with a deep knowledge of the Harlem community. The Godmother is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel visit novel.audio [http://novel.audio/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.