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The narrative of details are unprintable primarily unfolds over a seventh month period from October

1943 to April 1944.

From the moment the body of 22-year-old Patricia Burton-Lonigran is discovered in the bedroom

of a New York City Beakman Hill apartment, to the arrest of her husband of two years

Wayne Lonigran for her murder and his subsequent trial and conviction.

But this story goes back in time to the 1920s when Wayne Lonigran grew up in Toronto and

then forward to his post-prison life following his deportation to Canada.

It is the chronicle of Lonigran in denial as a bisexual or gay man living in an intolerant

and morally superior heterosexual world.

In a Patricia rich and entitled A Seeker of Attention, who loved The Night Out on the

Town, all set against the fast paced of New York's ostentatious cafe society.

Part True Crime and Part of Social History of New York City in the 1940s, this book transports

readers to the New York World's Fair of 1939 when Patricia's father William Burton first

encountered Lonigran.

The Stork Club, 21 Club and El Maroco to experience with Patricia a night of drinking, champagne

cocktails, and dancing, and the muggy New York courtroom where Lonigran's fate was decided.

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