Geary, Rick

During the years 1918 and 1919, six people in New Orleans were killed and six more injured, in their homes, in the dead of night, by an axe-wielding intruder who got away without a trace. After more than a year, the killings stopped as suddenly as they started. No trace of the murderer was ever found. Geary presents the facts and the speculations about these attacks in the third in his series on twentieth-century murder.

This is an engrossing, illustrated journey into true crime classics of the Victorian era. This second omnibus of storied treasuries of murder includes the famous double axe murder by Lizzie Borden; the mysterious drowning of the lovely Mary Rogers; the Bloody Benders, a Kansas family of murderous innkeepers; Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith who poisoned an inconvenient suitor; and the famous assassination of President Lincoln. Each true crime story includes a bibliography of research sources, presenting true facts about famous murders in an entertaining fashion.

Stanford White was one of New York's most famous architects. As he became more popular and in-demand, he also became quite self-indulgent. When he met young Evelyn Nesbit, a Broadway show girl, he knew he had to get to know her better. He began to take care of her widowed mother and her family and as he did so, his attachment to Evelyn grew. Although White was years older than Evelyn, she continued the friendship. But realizing that White would never leave his wife, Evelyn eventually married a young Pittsburgh heir with a dark side who developed a deep hatred for White and what he may or may not have done to Evelyn, setting up the most scandalous murder case of the time.

Out of the most gripping of H. G. Wells's science-fiction sagas, The Invisible Man is the story of a brilliant young scientist who impetuosly experiments upon himself, and then becomes invisible and mad, imprisioned in a nightmare of his own making.

A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone.

When William Desmond Taylor is found dead of a gunshot wound, the motion picture community cannot believe that Taylor could draw the ire of anyone, let alone a murderer. The ensuing investigation reveals that the well-respected director was not the person he seemed and neither were his friends.

A graphic novel account of the lives and deaths of Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were accused of murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, tried, convicted, and executed, in a case that caused an uproar around the world due to the questionable circumstances surrounding the case.

All was well for Charles Lindbergh after his daring solo crossing of the Atlantic. Fame and fortune came quickly. But soon after the Lindberghs built their dream home far from the madding crowd, tragedy struck--their baby was abducted!.

graphic novel adaptation of the H. G. Wells book The Invisible Man.