Books by Rick Geary and Complete Book Reviews
Rick Geary, NBM/ComicsLit, $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-581-8
Having provided many fascinating accounts of gruesome true crime in his excellent A Treasury of Victorian Murder series, Rick Geary skips ahead in time to the days of WWI and chronicles the unsolved rash of axe murders committed by the titular...
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Rick Geary. NBM, $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-68112-134-5
Geary adds another solid volume to his reliably good A Treasury of Murder series of graphic true crime histories with this chronicle of the blood-soaked final adventure of Henry McCarty, aka William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid. After a brief biography,
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Rick Geary. NBM, $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-68112-052-2
Geary’s made a career from his series of true crime graphic novels, all well-researched and sober, yet also capturing something of the eerie spark that attracts people to murder lore. Now he tackles a legendary unsolved case that hints at the...
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Rick Geary. NBM (nbmpublishing.com), $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-952-6
Inspired by Louise Brooks’s years in Kansas, Geary (A Treasury of Murder) imagines her as an accidental smalltown detective in this taut mystery. Her movie career having sputtered to a stop, the silent-film legend has returned to Kansas (where she...
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Rick Geary. NBM (www.nbmpub.com), $15.99 hardcover (80p) ISBN 978-1-561636-28-0
Two lifeless bodies, one belonging to Edward Hall, a local and well-liked minister, and the other to Eleanor Mills, a singer in his church’s choir, are found in a park in a quiet New Jersey suburb on September 14, 1922. The circumstances surrounding
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Rick Geary. NBM Comics Lit (www.nbmpublishing.com), $15.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-56163-605-1
Geary continues his campaign to use graphic novels to present complicated historical cases in a manner both clear and suspenseful with this look at the famous, controversial case. Geary lays out what is known and not known about the case, in which...
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Rick Geary, Author Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing $8.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-189-6
Comics artist Geary returns with another typically superlative work, the third in his series, A Treasury of Victorian Murder. As in his Jack the Ripper, Geary uses a fictional narrator to present a stylish, painstakingly researched treatment of the...
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Rick Geary, Author Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56163-124-7
Rendering the belching chimneys, puzzled bobbies and bewhiskered worthies of Victorian London in brooding b&w panels, Geary revisits the legend of Jack the Ripper in this stylish graphical novel. On the one hand, this is a 19th-century police...
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Rick Geary, Author Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing $9.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-228-2
In this first-rate nonfiction comics work, Geary examines the assassination of our 20th president, James Garfield, murdered barely six months into his presidency by Charles Guiteau, a failed lawyer and demented evangelist. Although the two men never
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Rick Geary, Author . Hill and Wang $16.95 (103p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9508-7
A principle architect and hero of the Russian Revolution, then a pariah and exile under Stalin, Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, is a perpetually controversial figure, which makes the tameness of this graphic biography so disconcerting....
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Rick Geary, Author . Hill & Wang $16.95 (102p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9503-2
Geary returns to the finely detailed style of historical case study made so fascinating in his Library of Victorian Murder series, this time moving away from visceral horror to the arena of political power and the transgressions wrought by those who
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Rick Geary, Author . NBM/Comics Lit $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56163-362-3
In this graphic novel series, Geary covers some of history's most famous murders in meticulously researched, beautifully drawn volumes. This one takes on H.H. Holmes, one of America's first serial killers, whose "murder castle"...
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Rick Geary, Author, Rick Geary, Compiled by . NBM $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-274-9
Geary (Jack the Ripper) adds to his Treasury of Victorian Murder series, this time retelling a true tale of the disappearance and murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, which prompted a media frenzy in 1840s New York. Rogers sold cigars in a tobacco store...
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Rick Geary, Author, Rick Geary, Illustrator . NBM/ComicsLit $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-555-9
The 10th in Geary's ongoing, multi–Eisner-nominated historical murder series, Famous Players
tells the story of one of the first major Hollywood scandals. Silent film actor/director William Desmond Taylor was killed in his home in...
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Rick Geary, Author, Rick Geary, Illustrator . Dark Horse $15.95 (103p) ISBN 978-1-59582-258-1
Before becoming known by his Treasury of Victorian Murder historical true crime series, Geary published the occasional (fictional) adventures of an intrepid young woman named Blanche, since gone out-of-print. Collected by Dark Horse in a single...
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Rick Geary, Author, Rick Geary, Illustrator . NBM $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56163-529-0
Following his multivolume, nonfiction Treasury of Victorian Murder
, Geary moves into the 20th century with a study of the 1932 kidnap-killing of celebrity aviator Charles A. Lindbergh's infant son. Not knowing their son was already dead, the...
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Rick Geary, Author, Rick Geary, Illustrator . NBM $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-498-9
Geary's ninth volume in his violent but informative and well-researched series covers the little known tale of the so-called Bloody Benders, a mysterious family of possibly German immigrants who set up a small grocery/hotel catering to...
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Rick Geary. NBM Comics Lit (www.nbmpublishing.com), $15.99. (80 pages) ISBN 978-1-56163-762-1
If Nancy Grace had been around in 1906, she would have covered the murder of Stanford White, an architect of many of New York City’s greatest landmarks. White was shot that year by psychopathic rich boy Harry Thaw, because of a previous affair that...
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Rick Geary, Author, Rick Geary, Illustrator . NBM/Comics Lit $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-467-5
This latest in Geary's lovingly researched and illustrated Treasury of Victorian Murder series relates the case of Madeleine Smith, a well-to-do architect's daughter who is willingly courted by Emile L'Anglier, a man of lesser means....
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Rick Geary, Author, Rick Geary, Illustrator . NBM/Comics Lit $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56163-425-5
This latest volume of Geary's series A Treasury of Victorian Murder is a must-read for those who are only familiar with cursory details of Lincoln's assassination. Geary's meticulous research and vivid illustrations create a fascinating...
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