A TREASURY OF XXth CENTURY MURDER COMPENDIUM II

Sacco & Vanzetti, The Black Dahlia, Lovers Lane, Famous Players

Rick Geary

Over 300 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.

REVIEWS:

"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!

"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

"...A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II offer almost everything one could want in a comic book. Geary has a winning formula and sees no reason to mess with it. He’s right about that."
- Lindsay Pereira, Broken Frontier

6x9, 320pp., B&W trade pb., $24.99
ISBN 9781681123332