The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
| Year of Publication |
1953
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
189 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Charles Samuels |
| Publisher |
Fawcett Publications, Inc.
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
A true crime novelization of the love triangle between Harry Thaw, heir to a coal and railroad fortune, Thaw’s wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit, and Stanford White, an architect and socialite. On June 25, 1906, Thaw shot and killed White at the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden in front of hundreds of witnesses. Thaw’s criminal trial was dubbed “the Trial of Century.”
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| Notes |
Kittanning is referred to as Wickboro, as it was then known. |
| Author Biography |
Charles Samuels (1902-82) was a journalist and writer best known for celebrity biographies.
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| Time |
1902-7 |
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