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. Inspired Edgar Allen Poe's "Mystery of Mary Roget."

Lindbergh's baby disappears! Geary retraces all the different highly publicized events, blackmail notes, false and otherwise, as well as the string of colorful characters wanting to 'help, ' some of which actually successfully snookered the beleaguered hero.

The most famous assassination of the Victorian era. The details he reveals are fascinating. Booth worked with a group of disgruntled Southern sympathizers out to decapitate much of the US Executive branch, not just the President! Geary also details the flight of the culprits and the hot pursuit of federal agents.

This set provides an engrossing, illustrated journey into true crime classics of the late Victorian era and early 20th century.

A beautiful heiress jilts her secret lover when she is courted by a successful businessman, and the lover subsequently dies from arsenic poisoning. The murder of Emile L'Anglier & the trial of Madeleine Smith scandalised 19th century Scotland.

Now In Paperback! Rick Geary takes us out to the Wild West and the just opened up prairies os Kansas. Out on a deserted stretch of road linking newly forming towns, a mysterious family stakes a claim and builds an inn for weary travelers. Soon, reports multiply of disappearances aroudn that area. Generally, those who disappeared had plenty of cash on them. A delicious tale of a gruesome family fronted by a beguiling lass who led their victims on...

A beautiful heiress jilts her secret lover when she is courted by a successful businessman, and the lover subsequently dies from arsenic poisoning. The murder of Emile L'Anglier & the trial of Madeleine Smith scandalised 19th century Scotland.

Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal take on this story shines an ironic light on the repressive society that spawned such a monster. TOP TEN QUICK PICKS '96 American Library Association (YALSA)

Long out of print, this very first volume of Rick Geary's increasingly successful series is now reissued in the same format as all other titles. Three delectable murders, culled from the pages of Victorian papers of the era, are presented in Geary's inimitable style, tongue firmly in cheek

Geary explores the first assassination of one of our presidents in the hands of an obsessive-compulsive stalker.

Chronicles the life and crimes of H.H. Holmes, a Chicago resident in the late 1800s commonly considered the world's first known serial killer, responsible for the deaths of nearly two hundred people.