Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac—America's most elusive serial killer.Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven 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 ...

„Ich töte Menschen, weil es mir so viel Spaß macht.“Jahrelang versetzte ein als Zodiac berühmt gewordener Serienkiller Kalifornien in Angst und Schrecken und spielte mit der Polizei ein grausames Katz-und-Maus-Spiel. Regisseur David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) verfilmt die Geschichte einer unglaublichen Mordserie mit u. a. Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. und Gary Oldman.

En 1988, Marli Renfro, la femme qui avait servi de doublure à Janet Leigh pour la célèbre scène de la douche du film Psychose d’Alfred Hitchcock, est brutalement assassinée. Simple coïncidence ? À l’époque, déjà, la police de Los Angeles avait suspecté du meurtre de plusieurs femmes un certain Sonny Busch, jeune homme qui avait vu le film et ressemblait étonnamment au personnage de Norman Bates. En 1960, Marli Renfro n’était certes pas une star, mais ce mannequin naturiste aux formes volup...

From National Bestselling author Robert Graysmith comes the original book about the mysterious UNABOMBER, the elusive mailbomber who baffled authorities for 17 years, creating the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history.November 15, 1979, the cockpit crew aboard American Airlines Flight No. 444 felt a concussion, a “thump,” and heard a “loud sucking noise” come from the area of the forward cargo hold. The sleek, silver outer skin of...

Marli Renfro was Janet Leigh's body double in the Hitchcock classic Psycho. When she disappeared, it was believed she was the victim of a serial killer. It was a mystery that took decades to solve-and a crime that could only have happened in Hollywood.

Entre 1926 à 1930, dans une douzaine de villes à travers les États-Unis, un homme aux longs bras de gorille et au rire nerveux étrangle ses victimes avant de les disséquer au rasoir dans un simulacre d'autopsie. Prédicateur à ses heures, il parcourt le pays, une bible à la main. Il est le premier tueur en série errant que la nation ait connu. Des années plus tard, des crimes identiques sont commis à San Francisco, là précisément où tout avait commencé... Alors que les docks noyés de brume ...

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Zodiac , Auto Focus and Black Fire.DAVID FINCHER WAS AFTER THE TRUTH.WITHOUT IT, HE WOULD NOT SHOOT ZODIAC.For nearly two decades, Hollywood had been trying to make a movie of Zodiac, and for nearly two decades, it had failed.In 2003, producer Brad Fischer, and screenwriter Jamie Vande...

The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.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 s...

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of 'Zodiac' and 'Zodiac Unmasked'.AMERICA WAS THE CRIME SCENESix days after the devastating events of 9/11, as the dust still clung to the air over New York, a new terror descended upon America. An invisible enemy that when inhaled, fatally ravaged the lungs, body, and brain.Mysterious envelopes filled with lethal powder contaminated everything and everyone they ca...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac, Auto Focus, and Black Fire.SO CLOSE TO SHORE,SO FAR FROM FORTUNE.WITH THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD, THEY CAME. San Francisco, 1849. Some arrived by land, but most came by sea. From packet to clipper, the first steamers, and even a stolen paddlewheeler, ships of every kind poured in through the Golden Gate. Packed to the gills with passengers ...

During the 1920s, in more than a dozen cities, over four years, and across two continents, women were being butchered. Eyewitneses claim the perpetrator was a hulking Bible-carrying brute who lumbered on all fours, and laughed maniacally with each new slaughter.The crimes haunted San Francisco Police Captain Charles Dullea, the last honest cop in one of the most notoriously corrupt departments in the country. But nothing could have prepared Dullea for where the case- and the truth-...

A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover’s lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven. The real toll may have reached fifty. He was never caught.“After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there is only one name their equal in terror: the deadly, elusive, and mysteri...