{"id":1679,"date":"2008-01-04T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2008-01-04T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T13:56:30","slug":"a-treasury-of-victorian-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/04\/a-treasury-of-victorian-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"A Treasury of Victorian Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/a-treasury-of-victorian-murder-volume-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Treasury of Victorian Murder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Rick Geary<\/strong> (NBM\/Comics Lit)<br \/>\nISBN13: 978-1-56163-309-8<\/p>\n<p>This stylish and bookshelf-friendly reissue was first released in 1987 as a broad, slim volume and led to the eccentric ongoing series of books (nine so far) that have captivated so many people around the globe. Geary&#8217;s fascination with his subject is irresistibly infectious and his unique cartooning style is a perfect medium to convey the starkly factual narrative in a memorable and undeniably enjoyable manner.<\/p>\n<p>The basic premise is simple. The age of Queen Victoria is ingrained in the psyche of the contemporary world, and this first outpost of modern society invested Murder with a whole new style and morbid popular appeal. Each of the cases the author adapts was big news at the time and still generates familiar stirrings in readers of a later century.<\/p>\n<p>This volume recounts the unsolved case known as<em> &#8216;The Ryan Mystery&#8217;<\/em>, wherein a brother and sister were brutally slain in New York in 1873, before outlining the fraudulent career and just deserts of a very nasty physician in <em>&#8216;The Crimes of Dr. E.W. Pritchard&#8217;<\/em>, and concludes with that now-common miscreant, the child-killer (and more besides) in the tale of <em>&#8216;The Abominable Mrs. Pearcy&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With the inclusion of highly informative pictorial essays for background this very readable successor to the &#8216;Penny-Dreadfuls&#8217; is a startling yet accessible read that will engross the fan of graphic narrative and entice the follower of &#8216;True-Crime&#8217; thrillers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1987, 2007 Rick Geary. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rick Geary (NBM\/Comics Lit) ISBN13: 978-1-56163-309-8 This stylish and bookshelf-friendly reissue was first released in 1987 as a broad, slim volume and led to the eccentric ongoing series of books (nine so far) that have captivated so many people around the globe. Geary&#8217;s fascination with his subject is irresistibly infectious and his unique cartooning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/04\/a-treasury-of-victorian-murder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Treasury of Victorian Murder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}