Tanya Eby’s Reviews > The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century > Status Update

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. I'd heard of "the girl on the swing" from the musical Ragtime, and a little bit about this crime of the century, so I thought I knew the story. I was wrong. There's so much to it and how the court case evolved is still shocking. A really interesting read, and told with moments of fictive description that lifts it out of dry non-fiction into a vibrant story.