Review:
"Wickedly enjoyable and suddenly timely, Simon Baatz's The Girl on the Velvet Swing enthralled me from start to finish. The sprawling story, rendered with sure touches, encompasses the aspirations and vices of an entire era."--Laurence Bergreen, author of Capone
"Simon Baatz, author of For the Thrill of It, has shown himself once again the absolute master of the true crime genre. This book has everything: bad behavior in high places, a spectacularly public murder, courtroom drama, a daring escape, even a mother-in-law from hell. It reads like fiction, but it's all real. A wonderful book."--John Steele Gordon, author of An Empire of Wealth
"The Girl on the Velvet Swing is unceasingly engaging. This book is a must-read, particularly because of Baatz's spinning out of the successive trials and hearings, and because of his own surprising final assessment."--Leland Roth, author of American Architecture and the critical study "McKim, Mead & White"
About the Author:
Simon Baatz is a New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning historian. He has graduate degrees in history from the University of Pennsylvania and Imperial College London, and he currently teaches United States history and American legal history at John Jay College, City University of New York. Simon grew up in London and has lived in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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