Death of a Pinehurst Princess

by Bouser, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781596291805
• ISBN10: 159629180X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-31
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

A news Media Frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth Statler's adopted daughter was discovered dead early one February morning weeks after her wedding day. A politically charged coroner's inquest failed to determine a definitive cause of death, and the following civil action continued to expose sordid details of the couple's lives. More than half a century later, the story was all but forgotten when local resident Diane McLellan spied an old photograph at a yard sale and became obsessed with solving the mystery. Her enthusiastic sleuthing captured the attention of Southern Pines resident and journalist Steve Bouser, who takes readers back to those blustery winter days so long ago in the search to reveal what really happened to Elva Statler Davidson. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 7
Occurrence at Edgewood Cottage	p. 15
A Melancholy Gypsy Tune	p. 20
Not Conceivably an Accident	p. 28
Touched by the Breath of Scandal	p. 35
A Shadow of Ugly Suspicion	p. 41
No Bible to Take an Oath On	p. 48
Waiting for the Hole Card	p. 59
No Other Foreign Matter	p. 69
Looking On with a Pained Expression	p. 78
Electrifying the Courtroom	p. 83
His Thin Face Smilelessly Imperturbable	p. 93
Nobody Dies in Pinehurst	p. 97
The Style to Which He Was Accustomed	p. 104
Poor Little Rich Girl	p. 109
The Many Faces of Elva	p. 118
To Parts and Places Unknown	p. 129
Shrouded in Verdure and Mystery	p. 135
Why Did He Get the Catbird Seat?	p. 143
Let Him Beware	p. 150
A Chance to Blow Out the Candles	p. 158
So Cunningly and Craftily	p. 169
The One-Hundred-Pound Bulldog	p. 176
A Faded Summer Love	p. 183
A Distant and Faraway Look	p. 190
The Shore of that Eternal Sea	p. 196
About the Author	p. 207
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