The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It's Geary's artfully precise reconstruction of turn-of-the-century Falls River that makes his work so haunting, and such a delight. The unsolved Borden murders have passed into folklore (""Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother forty whacks"") and the question of Lizzie's guilt (she was acquitted but remained under suspicion for the rest of her life) remains unanswered in Geary's book. As in his Jack the Ripper, Geary uses a fictional narrator to present a stylish, painstakingly researched treatment of the gruesome 1892 ax-murders of Abby and Andrew Borden in Falls River, Mass., and of the investigation, trial, and public and media spectacle that followed. Comics artist Geary returns with another typically superlative work, the third in his series, A Treasury of Victorian Murder. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |