Louise Brooks: Detective

In this 2015 NBM graphic novel, writer-artist Rick Geary recasts silent film icon Louise Brooks as a sharp-witted amateur sleuth. The single-issue story blends Geary’s signature crosshatched period detail with a cleverly constructed mystery, drawing on Brooks’s real-life persona as a flapper and cultural rebel. It’s a compact, stylish homage that showcases Geary’s knack for historical true crime, now filtered through the lens of classic Hollywood glamour.