Rick Geary - Böcker

'Geary returns with another typically superlative work... Artfully precise reconstruction... A Delight!' - Publisher's Weekly starred review. The infamous story of the Lizzy Borden murders reproduced here in Geary's distinctive style.

The Assassination of President Garfield Geary explores the first assassination of an American president by an obsessive-complusive stalker, a deluded loser who thought his action would bring him national glory. Once again, beyond a mere presentation of facts, the author surreptitiously unpeels a bit of national American Psyche. Fourth in the popular Victorian Murder series.

Mary Rogers was a compellingly beautiful lass employed in a cigar store in New York City. Then, she suddenly disappeared, her body recovered in the Hudson off the Jersey side. The press had a field day with all the shocking possibilities. Inspired Edgar Allen Poe's "Mystery of Mary Roget."

Geary explores the ghastliest and most famous murders of Victorian England. Geary has researched the subject extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the Jack the Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary shines an ironic light on the repressive society that spawned such a monster and its hypocritical reaction to it.

The next subject for Geary's award-winning and increasingly popular series is a 19th century mass murderer operating around the Chicago World's Fair. Find out who had the capacity to build a literal house of horrors replete with chutes for dead bodies, gas chambers and surgical rooms. Through Geary's meticulous recreation, readers are invited to dwell briefly in the deranged world and mind of a character so ugly that he methodically murdered up to 200 people, especially targeting young women. Darkly compelling and disturbingly true.

Geary turns his attention to the most famous assassination of the Victorian era, that of President Lincoln. The details he reveals are fascinating. Booth worked with a group of disgruntled Southern sympathisers out to decapitate much of the US Executive branch, not just the President! Geary also details the flight of the culprits and the hot pursuit of federal agents. Now in paperback.

A scandalous secret affair in 19th Scotland between an upper class woman and a gentleman of lower standing ends in his murder by poison...

Geary takes readers out to the Wild West and the just-opened up prairies of Kansas. Out on a deserted stretch of road linking new towns, a mysterious family stakes a claim and builds an inn for weary visitors. Soon, reports multiply of disappearances around that area. Generally, those who disappeared had plenty of cash on them... A delicious tale of a gruesome family fronted by a beguiling lass who led the victims on.

After his daring solo crossing of the Atlantic, fame and fortune came quickly to Charles Lindbergh, as well as marriage into a wealthy family. But soon after the newly-weds built themselves a dream home far from the madding crowd, tragedy strikes: their baby is abducted! Geary retraces all the different highly publicised events, blackmail notes, and the string of colourful characters wanting to help'. A fascinating story, replete with savoury details and unsavoury people as only Geary can masterfully relate.'