The Valentino Affair by Colin Evans Read Free Book Online

craving for anonymity. It was a paradox that would tear him apart for the rest of his life.

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
    I am greatly indebted to several people and several organizations that have assisted in the preparation of this book. These are, in no particular order: Tom Tryniski; the Library of Congress; the British Newspaper Library; the British Library; James Jayo and Lauren Brancato at Lyons Press; Kate Hertzog; Kris Patenaude; David Andersen; Greg Manning; and Roger Williams at New England Publishing Associates. A very special vote of thanks goes to those often unnamed and unheralded reporters who daily produced thousands of words about this extraordinary case. How they did it I will never know. But it’s thanks to them that this story can finally be told. The usual caveat applies, however; any errors or omissions are entirely the responsibility of the author. As always, the final thank-you goes to Norma.

B IBLIOGRAPHY
    Because this is the first full-length book dealing with the de Saulles case, and because the court records and a trial transcript were lost in a fire, the main sources of research, by necessity, have been contemporary newspapers. Thanks to the high caliber (and exhaustive length) of crime reporting in the early twentieth century, there was no shortage of material. The following newspapers were consulted at length:
Amsterdam Daily News
Atlanta Constitution
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Chicago Daily Tribune
Evening World
Ithaca Daily News
Lockport Union-Sun and Journal
Los Angeles Times
Nassau Post
New York Evening Telegram
New York Herald
New York Sun
New York Times
New York Tribune
Rome Daily Sentinel
South Side Messenger
Syracuse Herald
Washington Herald
Washington Post
Washington Times
    In addition, the following books provided background information:
Baden, Michael, with Judith Adler Hennessee. Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner. New York: Ballantine, 1989.
Botham, Neil. Valentino: The First Superstar. New York: Metro, 2002.
Capuzzo, Michael. Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence. New York: Random House, 2001.
Cuthbert, C. R. M. Science and the Detection of Crime. London: Grey Arrow, 1962.
Dearden, Harold. Death under the Microscope. London: Hutchinson, 1934.
Ellenberger, Allan R. The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.
Hocking, Denis. Bodies and Crimes. London: Arrow Books, 1994.
Leider, Emily W. Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003.
Morland, Nigel. Science in Crime Detection. London: Camelot, 1958.
Morris, Michael. Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
Saferstein, Richard. Criminalistics: Introduction to Forensic Science. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.