A review by antlersantlers
The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892 by Rick Geary

4.0

Rick Geary's style is so incredible. I genuinely cannot get enough of it! I also didn't know much about Lizzie Borden beyond the skipping rope rhyme (Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks. / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one.), but there is so much more to the story. I like how Geary adapted the first person diary for this comic. The language was perfect for telling the story and the images brought in the old-timey perspective and a modern eye.

More than anything these Treasury of Victorian Murder and Treasury of XXth Century Murder books have made me realize how crappy it must have been to live before all modern amenities. The most striking in these true crime stories is how absurd police investigation was. I am shocked any crimes got solved, and super skeptical that those crimes were actually solved.