The girl on the velvet swing : sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century / Simon Baatz.

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. "In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone...

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Main Author:	Baatz, Simon (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	White, Stanford, > 1853-1906. Nesbit, Evelyn, > 1884-1967. Thaw, Harry Kendall, > 1871-1947. Murder > New York (State) > New York > Case studies. Trials (Murder) > New York (State) > New York > Case studies. TRUE CRIME > Murder > General. HISTORY > United States > 20th Century. HISTORY > Social History. Murder. Trials (Murder) New York (State) > New York. Case studies. True crime stories.
Genre:	Case studies. True crime stories.
Physical Description:	392 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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Call Number:	HV6534.N5 B33 2018
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