Geary explores the first assassination of one of our presidents in the hands of an obsessive-compulsive stalker.

Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans The pattern for each murder is the same: a piece of the door is removed for entry; the axe is borrowed on the property; and the assailant aims straight for the head. Just after the First World War, the party atmosphere returns to the Big Easy, but someone looks to spoil it. Why? How could he fit through that piece in the door? Though the culprit is never revealed, speculations abound, which Geary presents here with his usual gusto.

Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White When he met Evelyn Nesbit—an exquisite young nymph, cover girl, showgirl, inspiration for Charles Dana Gibson's drawing The Eternal Question and later for the movie The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing—he knew he was on to something special. As he became popular and in demand, he also became quite self-indulgent: he had a taste for budding young showgirls on Broadway, even setting up a private apartment to entertain them in, including a room with a red velvet swing..

The popular primer on the best graphic novels, initially called The 101 Best Graphic Novels, is back in its third updated edition.

Soon, reports multiply of disappearances around that area.In his next volume, Geary takes us out to the wild west and the just opened up prairies of Kansas. Saga of the Bloody Benders Generally, those who disappear have plenty of cash on them..

Mills’ throat has been slit. Four years later the case reopens due to new evidence indicting the reverend’s wife, but she is an upstanding member of the community who vehemently denies that her husband ever had an affair.

Saga of the Bloody Benders Generally, those who disappear have plenty of cash on them.

Three delectable murders, culled from the pages of Victorian papers of the era, are presented in Geary’s inimitable style, tongue firmly in cheek! A Treasury of Victorian Murder Vol 1.

.A scandalous secret affair in 19th century Scotland between an upperclass woman and a gentleman of lower standing ends in his murder by poison.

It turned out to be the body of Elizabeth Short: posed, drained of blood, meticulously scrubbed, and cut in two. Black Dahlia. The case gets more complex when, days later, a local newspaper receives a cut-out letter from an anonymous "Black Dahlia Avenger" admitting to the crime. Was it a jealous boyfriend, a rejected suitor, or one of LA's notorious mafia connections whom she had apparently been dabbling with? How could her life have ended in such a ghastly fashion? Eisner Award winner Geary takes us through all the twists and turns in one of the most captivating unsolved mysteries of the 20th century in this latest installment of his Treasury of XXth Century Murder.

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Geary explores the first assassination of one of our presidents in the hands of an obsessive-compulsive stalker.

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A fictional story centered on actress Louise Brooks, this graphic novel by Rick Geary is spun around her actual brief meteoric career as a smoldering film actress who popularized bangs..Geary fantasizes about her coming back to her home town of Wichita where she becomes intrigued by a murder involving a friend, a famous reclusive writer and a shady beau.

Acclaimed illustrator Rick Geary tackles of one the most controversial cases of the 20th century with The Lives of Sacco & Vanzetti.

Geary retraces all the different highly publicized events, blackmail notes, false and otherwise, as well as the string of colorful characters wanting to ‘help,’ some of which actually successfully snookered the beleaguered hero.

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Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans The pattern for each murder is the same: a piece of the door is removed for entry; the axe is borrowed on the property; and the assailant aims straight for the head.. Just after the First World War, the party atmosphere returns to the Big Easy, but someone looks to spoil it. Why? How could he fit through that piece in the door? Though the culprit is never revealed, speculations abound, which Geary presents here with his usual gusto.

..A scandalous secret affair in 19th century Scotland between an upperclass woman and a gentleman of lower standing ends in his murder by poison.

.“Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one!” The famous Lizzie Borden double murder.

The details he reveals are fascinating..

 More letters follow toying with the LAPD.

Three delectable murders, culled from the pages of Victorian papers of the era, are presented in Geary’s inimitable style, tongue firmly in cheek! A Treasury of Victorian Murder Vol 1.

Acclaimed illustrator Rick Geary tackles of one the most controversial cases of the 20th century with The Lives of Sacco & Vanzetti.Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were accused and arrested for robbery and murder, but so many supposedly damning pieces of evidence were questionable, and the pair's eventual guilty verdict elicited massive protests around the world.. Geary presents readers with all the twists and turns, appeals, and dubious evidence, giving a human face of the two men—who were demonized by many and martyrized by others—in his usual, unflappable style.

.Also conversant in Spanish, "Billito" was popular with the Spanish speaking crowd.

Inspired Edgar Allen Poe’s “Mystery of Mary Roget.

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel Crumb's The Book of Genesis.

Expert librarian Stephen Weiner—with the crowdsourcing help of professionals in the field, from artists to critics to leading comic store owners—has sifted through the bewildering thousands of graphic novels now available to come up with an outstanding, not-to-be-missed 101. With an all-encompassing variety of genres, including both fiction and nonfiction, this serves as a great introduction to this increasingly influential world of pop culture and entertainment while also serving as a reference list for fans on what they may have possibly overlooked..

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.Geary’s inimitable tongue-in-cheek take on last century's most infamous serial killer.