The girl on the velvet swing : sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century / Simon Baatz.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316396653
- 0316396656
- 364.152/3097471 23
- HV6534.N5 B33 2018
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Non-Fiction | Non-fiction | 364 .152 Baatz (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 16153 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-380) and index.
First encounter -- Rape -- Marriage -- Murder -- First trial -- Second trial -- Asylum -- Escape -- Final verdict -- Epilogue.
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.
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