A Wild Truth

A crime of gentility in Gramercy Park! A lead item in a silk hat society column called the Knickerbocker read on: The Sturtevant sisters and the Gramercy Park setting in this year of 1955 could pass still as a faded daquerrotype of a Jamesian novel fifty years removed, however Henry James would not soil foolscap with the the details of a common crime, murder. Gramercy Park, as then, is still a private enclave in mid-New York unsharing of secrets that bound fettered lives within strict conventions of the haut monde of New York’s once Five Hundred families. The mansions themselves have physiognomies of their own reflecting past and present owners in this park-like enclosure aching with nostalgic regrets, crying out for liberty to love furiously, to roam, to sing a self, or to commit a crime.