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1) Black fire: the true story of the original Tom Sawyer--and of the mysterious fires that baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco

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Pub. Date

[2012]

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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.

2) Bell tower: the case of Jack the Ripper finally solved... in San Francisco

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Graysmith, Robert

Pub. Date

1999.

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"San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist church was built amid the hollows, odd lights and drifting fog of what had been a burial ground."--BOOK JACKET. "Rumors of ghosts and orgies swirl around the church. Worse is the repeated, brutal fact of suicide and murder. The church's first pastor severed his own throat with a straight razor, the second pastor shot himself, the third murdered the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle."--BOOK JACKET. "The fourth...

3) The girl in Alfred Hitchcock's shower

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Graysmith, Robert

Pub. Date

2010

4) Zodiac

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Graysmith, Robert

Pub. Date

c2007

5) Zodiac

Pub. Date

2007

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A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. The four men most affected by the killer are San Francisco PD Homicide detectives David Toschi and William Armstrong, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500"...