(a Tommy and Tuppence mystery) / "The lamp of God" / Cain and Abel from the Book of Genesis / Ellery Queen ; art/adaptation by Till Lukat. "Bluebeard" / Charles Perault ; art/adaptation by Shawn Cheng -- "The tell-tale heart" / Edgar Allan Poe ; art/adaptation by Dame Darcy -- Lady Audley's secret / Mary Elizabeth Braddon ; art/adaptation by Joy Kolitsky -- Murder ballads / art/adaptation by John Pierard -- Psycho / Robert Bloch ; art/adaptation by Rachel Leah Gallo -- The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; art/adaptation by Andrea Montano -- The silence of the lambs / Thomas Harris ; art/adaptation by Alice Urbino -- The Black Dahlia / James Ellroy ; art/adaptation by Josebo Morales -- I was Dora Suarez / Derek Raymond ; art/adaptation by Douglas Noble -- Part two: Revenge. Salome and John the Baptist from the Gospel of Matthew / art/adaptation by Angelle Sundberg -- "The Pardoner's tale" / Geoffrey Chaucer ; art/adaptation by Katherine Hearst -- Titus Andronicus / William Shakespeare ; art/adaptation by Anthony Ventura -- Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier ; art/adaptation by Emily Rose Dixon -- The godfather / Mario Puzo ; art/adaptation by Rachel Smythe -- Part three: The system. "The lady, or the tiger" / Frank R. Stockton ; art/adaptation by Omer Hoffmann -- The trial / Franz Kafka ; art/adaptation by Landis Blair -- Part four: Elementary. "The case of the wild cat and the Crown Prince" (a Justice Bao mystery) / art/adaptation by Sonia Leong -- "The Swedish match" / Anton Chekhov ; art/adaptation by Hila Noam -- "A scandal in Bohemia" / Arthur Conan Doyle ; art/adaptation by Lara Antal and Dave Kelly -- "The Ninescore mystery" (a Lady Molly mystery) / Baroness Emmuska Orczy ; art/adaptation by Becky Hawkins -- "The sins of the Prince Saradine" (a Father Brown mystery) / G.K. Chesterton ; art/adaptation by Sally Madden -- The secret adversary (a Tommy and Tuppence mystery) / Agatha Christie ; art/adaptation by Kim Clements -- "The road home" / Dashiell Hammett ; art/adaptation by Teddy Goldberg -- "The lamp of God" / Ellery Queen ; art/adaptation by Till Lukat.
Summary:
"Here is Teddy Goldenberg's dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett's "The Road Home," often considered the first hard-boiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win. Plus twenty-three other contributors using a wide range of illustrative styles. As with previous volumes in the Graphic Canon series, the illustrations run the full gamut of media and techniques, and artistic interpretations range from verbatim literalism to metaphorical extensions to surrealism and abstraction. The common theme, tracing the origins and standout texts of the morbid and mysterious, unites these multifarious partners in crime"-- Provided by publisher.
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