The fall of the house of Walworth : a tale of madness and murder in gilded age America / Geoffrey O'Brien.

1st ed.

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.

xii, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

"A John Macrae book."

Documents the 1873 case in which eighteen-year-old Frank Walworth shot and killed his father in the Sturtevant House hotel, tracing how the Walworth family rose to prominence in the New York aristocracy before succumbing to decades of corruption and mental illness.

English

September 15, 2010

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-319) and index.