A Treasury of XXth Century Murder:
THE LINDBERGH CHILD
America’s Hero and the Crime of the Century
Rick GEARY
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Geary’s Treasury of Victorian Murder moves onto the XXth century with one of the most sensationalistic cases ever!
All was well for Charles Lindbergh, after his daring solo crossing of the Atlantic. Fame and fortune came quickly as well as marriage into wealthy family. But soon after they build themselves their dream home far from the madding crowd, tragedy strikes: their baby is abducted! 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. A fascinating story, of course without a fully satisfactory conclusion, replete with savory details and unsavory people as only Geary can masterfully relate with his understated dark humor. An ICv2 Pick Hit to Click
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2008.
"As for the differences between XXth Century Murder and Victorian Murder, they mainly have to do with the rise of the mass media, and the way impossible mysteries become all the more frustrating when so many people are following the story. Geary's Victorian series was all about the creepy America that was; this new series looks like it'll be about the creepy America that is… A-" -The Onion
"I devour each of Geary's volumes the instant they come out, and I'm running out of superlatives. Just go buy one, already, and you'll be as hooked as I am."
-Andrew 'Cap'n Comics' Smith, Scripps News Service
"As with his series on Victorian murders, Geary doesn't point fingers or lay blame, but simply lays the case before the reader in a clear and concise manner. For a quick interesting coverage of major cases to get one up to speed on what happened along with a bibliography of further reading -- this is a great place to start."
-GumshoeReview.com
"Showing his customary droll mastery of the short, telling stroke and laconically precise sentence, Geary portends that he'll render the rest of the twentieth century's most celebrated enormities as handsomely as he did the nineteenth's." -Booklist
"Rick Geary's version is gripping and grisly precisely because it does away with extracurricular characterization and overt violence, bringing the historical tragedy's full effect into finer focus. The same can be said of his earlier works, especially The Bloody Benders and The Murder of Abraham Lincoln." -Scott Thill, WIRED.com
"Rick Geary is one of cartooning’s unsung treasures. Highly recommended, topnotch stuff." -Heidi McDonald, THE BEAT
"The Lindbergh Child" is the sort of book that once you pick up, you can't put back down until you're finished. Forget modern murder cases like O.J. Simpson or Robert Blake; once you read "The Lindbergh Child" you'll really understand what it takes to have a sequence of events be named "the crime of the century." Unforgettable, from start to finish."-Comic Book Resources.com
"This thoughtful retelling of one of the century's most notorious crimes deserves several readings."
Publishers Weekly starred review
6x9, 80pp., B&W, trade pb.: $9.95
ISBN 978-1-56163-530-6