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©2018
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xiii, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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"When Stanford White, one of the most famous architects of the era - whose mark on New York City is second to none - was murdered by Harry K. Thaw in 1906, his death become known as 'The Crime of the Century'. But there were other players in this love-triangle-gone-wrong that would play a part in the incredible story of White's murderer. Chief among them was the ambitious district attorney William Travers Jerome, who had the opportunity to make - or break - his career with his prosecution of Thaw. Thaw was the debauched and deranged heir to a Pittsburgh fortune who had a sadistic streak. White was an artistic genius and one of the world's premier architects who would become obsessed with a teenaged chorus girl, Evelyn Nesbit. White preyed on Nesbit, who, in a surprising twist, also became a fixation for Thaw. Nesbit and Thaw would later marry, but Thaw's lingering jealousy and anger toward White over his past history with Nesbit would explosively culminate in White's shocking murder - and the even more shocking trial of Thaw for a murder that was committed in front of dozens of eye witnesses"-- Page [4] of cover