The Girl on the Velvet Swing - Simon Baatz

Evelyn Nesbit is a name I have run across while researching my vaudeville-era obsession, so when I ran across this book in the library, subtitled "Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century," I had to pick it up. The crime central to this book isn't well known today but at the time it was the scandal on every front page. This book is really well researched and well written and the story is bizarrely tragic and doesn't quite end how one might expect. This book is well worth a read.