Yours Truly: The Mysterious Death of Evelyn Hoey

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Honey haired, blue-eyed Evelyn Hoey (1910-1935) was a muse to Cole Porter for years. But what happened one September night in a Pennsylvania farm house that she should die while in the company of one of the richest families in America? Her New York City music teacher and her friend Henry H. Rogers III's chauffeur revealed some clues.

Sources:

Daily News from New York, New York (1937), https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/418100366/

IMDB, Evelyn Hoey, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388617/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Madera Tribune (September 1935), https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19350921.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

Chestercountyramblings, Lloyd Farm (2022), https://chestercountyramblings.com/tag/lloyd-farm/

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