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Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White
By Rick Geary
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Nominee, Reuben Award for Best Graphic NovelBringing to life turn-of-the-century New York and the scintillating career of one of its most famous architects, as well as the vices that cost him his life, this true-crime graphic novel tells the story of one of the most scandalous murders of the times. Stanford White was one of New York's most famous architects, having designed many mansions and the first Madison Square Garden; his influence on New York's look at the turn of the century was pervasive. As he became popular and in demand, he also became quite self-indulgent: he had a taste for budding young showgirls on Broadway, even setting up a private apartment to entertain them in, including a room with a red velvet swing. When he met Evelyn Nesbit—an exquisite young nymph, cover girl, showgirl, inspiration for Charles Dana Gibson's drawing The Eternal Question and later for the movie The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing—he knew he was on to something special. However, Evelyn eventually married a young Pittsburgh decadent heir with a dark side who developed a deep hatred for White and what he may or may not have done to her.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've admired Rick Geary's ability to put a complex historical incident into quaint little boxes and somehow make it clear in the process, and his ability to reveal grayish characters in black-and-white drawings. He does all of that in this squalid tale, but he does one thing more, with the aid of an excellent map: he brings to life the glittering, hypocritical, rotten subculture where Stanford White, Harry Thaw, and Evelyn Nesbit played their parts.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What can I say? Another fine entry in Geary's Murders series. This one is slightly different in that there is no mystery here. I've read all the other books in both these series and as far as I can recall each of those had at least some element of either not knowing who the killer was or a lasting doubt as to whether the guilty/not guilty verdict was in fact the truth; or simply that the killer(s) got away with it. In this high-profile case, there was no question as to the murderer as he committed it in public and 'fessed up immediately. This is the story of how that murder came to be, the scandal that surrounded it and the stories of the lives of the three participants from birth to when they became inseparably tied to this scandalous murder. I had heard of Evelyn Nesbit and the scandalous life she lead, that she had been "the woman" in a murder of passion but really didn't know much more about this case. I love the way Geary tells the story starting with one person's birth up until he meets the next person, then that person's story until she meets the third person and finally that persons story from the beginning until all three are wrapped up in the same tale. This is one of my favourite time periods, the very early 1900s, and any murder involving decadence and wild sex stories was sure to capture the country's attention. Usual brilliant Geary art par excellance, needs no further description. I'd read a phone book illustrated by the man! My only complaint? The long wait till Geary's next book!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5No way to make the text larger??!!! I can't read it....
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