Showing results by author "Robert Graysmith"

After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there was only one name their equal in terror: the deadly, elusive, and mysterious Zodiac. Beginning in 1968 the hooded mass murderer terrified the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area with a string of brutal killings. A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder.

Between December 1968 and October 1969, a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for 37 murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms that baffled FBI code-breakers. Then, as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog. After painstaking investigation and more than 30 years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac's true identity. 

When 28-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer at a local bathhouse in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first novel. As Twain steamed, played cards, and drank beer with Sawyer (a volunteer firefighter, customs inspector, and local hero responsible for having saved 90 lives at sea), he had second thoughts about Shirley Tempest, his proposed book about a local girl firefighter, and began to envision a novel of wider scope.

二十世纪七十年代，时常遭遇难题的洛杉矶警察再次迎来新的挑战，名为“十二宫”的连环杀手通常在月黑风高的深夜里出没，在阴森恐怖的黑暗街头寻找“猎物”……二十世紀七十年代，時常遭遇難題的洛杉磯警察再次迎來新的挑戰，名為「十二宮」的連環殺手通常在月黑風高的深夜裡出沒，在陰森恐怖的黑暗街頭尋找「獵物」……