The Girl on the Velvet Swing

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A thrilling story of true crime-and a love triangle turned deadly-from New York Times bestseller and award-winning historian Simon Baatz.In 1901, Evelyn Nesbit, the pin-up girl and New York society darling, dined with Stanford White in his 24th St. apartment. The two drank champagne, and Evelyn was dazzled by a tour of his sumptuously decadent rooms, a tour which ended on a velvet couch in his floor-to-ceiling paneled "mirror room." Evelyn was given more champagne, lost consciousness, and woke, nearly naked, in bed next to Stanford White. White, an acclaimed architect and notorious womanizer, was 47. Evelyn Nesbit was just 16.Four years later, Evelyn would marry Harry Thaw, a playboy millionaire rumored to be mentally disturbed. One night in 1906, a vengeful Thaw shot and killed White before hundreds of theatre-goers during a performance at Madison Square Garden—a venue designed by Stanford White himself. The murder and ensuing trial...