A Treasury of Xxth Century Murder Compendium II - by Rick Geary (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

400 pages of real murder cases from the 20th century! From the famous Sacco & Vanzetti story through the ever-intriguing renowned Black Dahlia murder of a striking aspiring actress in Los Angeles, the mysterious murder of silent movie director William Desmond Taylor in early Hollywood to that of a preacher and his lover found murdered in a park, here is a collection of scandalous murders which were never solved or marked the century. Meticulously researched, they are presented in Geary's inimitable tongue-in-cheek style.

Review Quotes

"Geary, a cartoonist with the soul of a historian, reaches no easy conclusions, but gives readers the tools to draw their own." --Publishers Weekly

"One should never enjoy murder, mayhem, or chaos, but Rick Geary's new book A Treasury of XXth Century Murder is a fascinating book about just that--murder, mayhem, and chaos."--Judith Reveal, New York Journal of Books

"Geary is an accomplished cartoonist and storyteller, and these installments in his long-running series on American crime are sure to satisfy fans of graphic novels and true crime alike." --Library Journal

"This merrily morbid series of murder masterpieces should be mandatory reading for all comic fans, mystery addicts and crime collectors." --Win Wiacek, Now Read This!

"A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II offer almost everything one could want in a comic book."--Lindsay Pereira, Broken Frontier

"One of The 13 Can't Miss Graphic Novels of 2011. Chalk one more up for the history books and another great contribution to the country's wealth of graphic lit." --Kirkus Reviews

"For Sacco & Vanzetti: "Top ten of 2011" -Onion's AV Club "If anyone can bring an eighty year story to life, Geary is the man for the job. He tells the story with aplomb and allows another generation of students to see this case."--Library Media Connection

About the Author

Rick Geary was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San Diego in 1975. He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His has also appeared in Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. In 1989, he started the multi-volume true crime, highly acclaimed series Treasury of Victorian Murder then XXth Century Murder for NBM Graphic Novels for which he is mostly remembered today.