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Title:
The girl on the velvet swing : sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century / Simon Baatz.
ISBN:
9780316396653
Personal Author:
Baatz, Simon
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2018.

©2018
Physical Description:
392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
First encounter -- Rape -- Marriage -- Murder -- First trial -- Second trial -- Asylum -- Escape -- Final verdict -- Epilogue.
Summary:
A chronicle of the events surrounding the 1906 murder trial of millionaire Harry Thaw details the victimization of teen actress Evelyn Nesbit and Thaw's vengeance-fueled, public murder of legendary architect Stanford White.
Personal Subject:
White, Stanford, 1853-1906.

Nesbit, Evelyn, 1884-1967.

Thaw, Harry Kendall, 1871-1947.
Subject Term:
Murder--New York (State)--New York -- Case studies.

Trials (Murder)--New York (State)--New York -- Case studies
Genre:
True crime stories
OCLC Number:
on1018380270
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
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