Simon Baatz: 2 books
The Girl on the Velvet Swing
Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.
In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen...
For the Thrill of It
Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended,...