Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/philosophy/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0007 408616 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/philosophy/engine/rss.php:0 Robert Graysmith - Free Library Land Online - Philosophy https://philosophy.library.land/ ru Robert Graysmith - Free Library Land Online - Philosophy DataLife Engine Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/56760-zodiac_unmasked_the_identity_of_americas_most_elusive_serial_killer_revealed.html https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/56760-zodiac_unmasked_the_identity_of_americas_most_elusive_serial_killer_revealed.html Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
Robert Graysmith reveals what he feels is 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 more than thirty years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac's true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America's greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved. INCLUDES PHOTOS AND A COMPLETE REPRODUCTION OF ZODIAC'S LETTERS]]> Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:22:22 +0200 The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/56761-the_laughing_gorilla_a_true_story_of_police_corruption_and_murder.html https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/56761-the_laughing_gorilla_a_true_story_of_police_corruption_and_murder.html The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder
The New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac now uncovers one of the most bizarre cases in the annals of American crime. San Francisco, 1926: A series of women are slashed to death and dismembered. Incredibly, eyewitness reports claim the perpetrator was a hulking brute with razor-claws for hands who lumbered on all fours and laughed maniacally before shredding the nude flesh of his female victims. The tabloid press called him the Laughing Gorilla and loved every sensational beat of the story. For Inspector Charles Dullea of the San Francisco Police, the last honest cop in one of the most notoriously corrupt departments in the country, the serial killings raised a haunting question: who could commit such crimes? Nothing prepared Dullea for the answer. ]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:22:22 +0200 Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/56762-black_fire_the_true_story_of_the_original_tom_sawyer.html https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/56762-black_fire_the_true_story_of_the_original_tom_sawyer.html Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer
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 steamed, played cards, and drank beer with Sawyer (a volunteer firefighter, customs inspector, and local hero responsible for having saved ninety 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.  Twain learned that a dozen years earlier the then eighteen-year-old New York-born Sawyer had been a “Torch Boy,” one of the youths who raced ahead of the volunteer firemen’s hand-drawn engines at night carrying torches to light the way, always aware that a single spark could reduce the all-wood city of San Francisco to ashes in an instant.  At that time a mysterious serial arsonist known by some as “The Lightkeeper” was in the process of burning San Francisco to the ground six times in eighteen months – the most disastrous and costly series of fires ever experienced by any American metropolis. Black Fire is the most thorough and accurate account of Sawyer’s relationship with Mark Twain and of the six devastating incendiary fires that baptized one of the modern world’s favorite cities.  Set amid a scorched landscape of burning roads, melting iron warehouses, exploding buildings, and deadly gangs who extorted and ruled by fear, it includes the never-before-told stories of Sawyer’s heroism during the sinking of the steamship Independence and the crucial role Sawyer and the Torch Boys played in solving the mystery of the Lightkeeper.   Drawing on archival sources such as actual San Francisco newspaper interviews with Sawyer and the handwritten police depositions of the arrest of the Lightkeeper, bestselling author Robert Graysmith vividly portrays the gritty, corrupt, and violent world of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, overrun with gunfighters, hooligans, hordes of gold prospectors, crooked politicians, and vigilantes.  By chronicling how Sawyer took it upon himself to investigate, expose, and stop the arsonist,  Black Fire details – for the first time – Sawyer’s remarkable life and illustrates why Twain would later feel compelled to name his iconic character after his San Francisco buddy when he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:22:23 +0200 Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/436970-zodiac_unmasked_the_identity_of_americas_most_elusive_serial_killers_revealed.html https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/436970-zodiac_unmasked_the_identity_of_americas_most_elusive_serial_killers_revealed.html Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed
]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:06:48 +0200 The Laughing Gorilla https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/425575-the_laughing_gorilla.html https://philosophy.library.land/robert-graysmith/425575-the_laughing_gorilla.html The Laughing Gorilla
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The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (who Mark Twain met 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 on the loose in mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.

When 28-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer at San Francisco's steam baths 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 ninety 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. Twain learned that a dozen years earlier the eighteen-year-old New York-born Sawyer had been a "Torch Boy," one of the young men who raced ahead of the volunteer firemen's hand-drawn...]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:24:34 +0200