Issue Description

Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one!" In this third volume of Geary's Treasury, the famous Lizzie Borden double murder is explored with as much attention to well -researched detail as in his Jack the Ripper. This is another celebrated murder of last century, the one that lead to the infamous school rhyme.

The parrallel between this old case and OJ Simpson's is striking: both defendants had unblemished reputations; the double murders were gruesome; there were no witnesses and no weapons found; the cases took the media by storm. Both wealthy defendants hired expensive lawyers who convinced the jury of reasonable doubt. Both remain under a cloud of suspicion...

Lizzie Borden took an axe

And gave her mother forty whacks.

When she saw what she had done

She gave her father forty-one.

Who wouldn't want to see that illistrated?

Rick Geary does that, along with the trial and attending hoop-la that followed.

A Treasury of Victorian Murder (1987)

Publisher

NBM

Volume Description

Excellent hardback comic (Comic Lit) series that Rick Geary has been doing since 1987 and is still contributing volumes to as late as 2007.

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