Synopses & Reviews
Geary presents us yet another true crime of the last century, very carefully researched and factual but with his usual gleeful tongue-in-cheek look at the lurid details.
Mary Rogers was a compellingly beautiful lass employed in a cigar store in New York City in the mid-nineteenth century. She had a few suitors. Then she suddenly disappeared, her body recovered in the Hudson off the Jersey side. The press had a field day with all the possible shocking possibilities. Rape...her "fooling around" between lovers...even gang rape. Never was this case solved. The hypotheses remain many. Even Edgar Allen Poe thought to have solved the case and presented that in his tale "The Mystery of Mary Roget."
Make up your own mind. Geary recreates a fascinating picture of the nascent still somewhat anarchical soon-to-be metropolis of New York.
Review
"Geary comes up with his own twist on the mystery and manages to capture the spirit of a booming and boisterous New York City in the 1840s....Drawing on news accounts of the time and the many fictional accounts surrounding the case, Geary's retelling is detailed and well researched, and his impressive black-and-white drawings depict Victorian New York with great care." Publishers Weekly
Review
"Unique, captivating...one terrific graphic novel!" Andrew Simith, Scripps-Howard Papers
Synopsis
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."
About the Author
Author/Artist Rick Geary is full of facts about strange goings-on, from politics to true crime stories to great disasters like the Molasses Flood in Boston. Yet he's so smiley and happy you would never know he has a penchant for investigating dark stuff like this, which he does meticulously, thereafter creating graphic novels of intense interest and tongue-in-cheek humor.