The similarities: weapons used, no money taken and the method of entrance. The police could not figure out who the killer was knowing only that the man was large in stature and wearing a coat. A husband and his wife were slaughtered with a razor blade and an axe, both left behind at the scene of the crime. In the steamy spring of 1918 a grisly murder was committed. If this is a weaker title, I can only imagine how fabulous the other titles are. My introduction to Geary came in the form of what is considered a weaker book in the series, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans. He has been working on his more recent series, A Treasury of XXth Century Murder since 2008. His first series, A Treasury of Victorian Murders included volumes on Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden, H.H. Unbeknownst to me, Author and Illustrator Rick Geary has been producing a series of glorious true crime graphic novels since the 1980’s.
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