I read this for the (somewhat controversial) microhistory prompt in the 2021 Reading Glasses challenge. While it's unlikely that I would have sought this book out on my own, I found it much more interesting than I expected to. On the one hand, there's something timeless about the appeal of scandal, and there's a good deal of scandal here. On the other, there's some intellectual pleasure in seeing Davis take the sources available to her, speculate about what might fill in the blanks, and examine tensions and contradictions among versions of events. Somewhere between a 3- and 4-star read for me.