The Saga of the Bloody Benders

The Saga of the Bloody Benders 

By Rick Geary (NBM/Comics Lit)
ISBN 1-56163-498-0

Quirky crime-historian Rick Geary presents another captivating slice of morbid fascination in this subtly engrossing account of one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of the nineteenth century, via the vehicle of his graphic novel series ‘A Treasury of Victorian Murder’.

In unsettled Kansas, in the period immediately following the American Civil War, a family of German speaking immigrants settled near the Osage Trail and built a General Store-cum-Hotel equidistant between the nascent townships of Cherry Vale, Parsons and Thayer. By the time they vanished four years later, as few as ten but probably many, many travellers and settlers had been robbed and murdered, before the Benders simply vanished from the sight of man.

Geary, with supreme style and dry wit, presents the facts and the best of the rumours in his inimitable cartoon style to create yet another unforgettable masterpiece of Gothic whimsy.

© 2007 Rick Geary. All Rights Reserved.