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

Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018
Edition: First edition.

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 Marshall Adult Non-Fiction  364.1523 BAA    DUE 04-01-24  ---
Description: 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Contents: First encounter -- Rape -- Marriage -- Murder -- First trial -- Second trial -- Asylum -- Escape -- Final verdict -- Epilogue.
Bibliog.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-380) and index.
Subject: 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.
Genre: True crime stories.
ISBN/ISSN: 9780316396653 (hardcover)
0316396656 (hardcover)

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