Baatz, Simon

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The girl on the velvet swing

sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century
  • Baatz, Simon
2018
Chronicles the events surrounding the 1906 murder trial of millionaire Harry Thaw, detailing the victimization of teen actress Evelyn Nesbit and Thaw's public murder of architect Stanford White.
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For the thrill of it

Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago
  • Baatz, Simon
2008
Presents a detailed account of the murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, the arrest of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, their trial, and imprisonment.
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