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9781681123332

A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II Including: Sacco and Vanzetti, Black Dahlia, Lovers Lane, Famous Players

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    9781681123332

  • ISBN10:

    1681123339

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2025-01-14
  • Publisher: NBM Publishing

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

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