Lindbergh’s baby disappears! 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.

Early Hollywood director Taylor is found shot. Was it the star May Miles Minter or a former butler? A scandal sheet delectable murder mystery.

Nights of terror A city awash in blood New Orleans right after the First World War. The party returns to the Big Easy but someone looks to spoil it. Grocers are being murdered in the dead of night by someone grabbing their axe and hacking them right in their own cushy beds 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 Why? How could he fit through that piece in the door? The man is never found for sure but speculations abound which Geary presents with his usual gusto

Ο Rick Geary εξετάζει την πιο πολύκροτη δίκη του 20ού αιώνα. Οι αναρχικοί Σάκο και Βαντσέτι κατηγορούνται για ληστεία και δολοφονία αλλά τα υποτιθέμενα ακλόνητα ενοχοποιητικά στοιχεία είναι τόσο αμφισβητήσιμα που η καταδίκη τους πυροδοτεί μαζικές διαμαρτυρίες σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο. Με ψυχραιμία, ο Geary μας παρουσιάζει τη δίκη, τις ανατροπές και τα ύποπτα στοιχεία αφού πρώτα μάς δείχνει το ανθρώπινο πρόσωπο των δύο αντρών, που άλλοι δαιμονοποίησαν και άλλοι ηρωοποίησαν. Με ψυχραιμία και σαφήνεια, ο Geary παρουσιάζει όλες τις πτυχές μιας από τις σημαντικότερες υποθέσεις, που συγκλόνισε όλον τον κόσμο τον 20ο αιώνα: Την ιστορία των ιταλών αναρχικών εργατών Σάκο και Βαντσέτι οι οποίοι κατηγορήθηκαν για ληστεία μετά φόνου και εκτελέστηκαν παρόλο που οι διαμαρτυρίες για άδικη δίκη και ενοχοποίησή τους δεν σταμάτησαν ποτέ. Στις 15 Απριλίου του 1920 διαπράχθηκε η ένοπλη ληστεία για την οποία κατηγορήθηκαν!

The perfect ingredients for a juicy scandal and fascinating investigation are presented in this masterful graphic novel retelling of an unsolved murder from the 1920s. On the evening of September 14, 1922, Reverend Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the New Brunswick town park. Shots are heard and two days later their bodies are found lying neatly next to each other, love letters strewn around them, and a scarf obscures the fact that Mrs. Mills’ throat has been slit. The two had been involved in an affair and the press hungrily devours the story. No evidence is sufficient to lead to an indictment, so the mystery intensifies with conjecture: Was this a dual suicide? Was this perpetrated by a jealous rival? 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. This is a tragic story told with beguiling relish and expert illustration in a distinctive style fitting of the era.

Reuben Award for Best Graphic Novel YALSA, Great Graphic Novels for Teens Bringing to life turn-of-the-century New York and the scintillating career of one of its most famous architects, as well as the vices that cost him his life, this true-crime graphic novel tells the story of one of the most scandalous murders of the times. Stanford White was one of New York’s most famous architects, having designed many mansions and the first Madison Square Garden; his influence on New York’s look at the turn of the century was pervasive. As he became popular and in demand, he also became quite 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. 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. However, Evelyn eventually married a young Pittsburgh decadent heir with a dark side who developed a deep hatred for White and what he may or may not have done to her.

Witness the most controversial and famous true crime cases that shook the 20th century! These 240 pages retell the love affair that ended the life of prominent architect Stanford White, the New Orleans’ Axe-Man and his gruesome killing spree, and the abduction (and resulting media circus) of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s son—all collected in a handsome quarter-bound omnibus.