Most Evil II: Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation and Decryption of the 1970 Zodiac Cipher in which the San Francisco Serial Killer Reveals his True Identity (Inscribed)

Hodel, Steve

ISBN 10: 1942600453 / ISBN 13: 9781942600459

Published by Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book, Los Angeles, California, 2015

About this Item

The book is inscribed by Steve Hodel in pen on the third page. The second page has a crease down the middle and the third page has a two inch long crease. The book has some foxing along the right side edges. The cover has some surface wear.

Seller Inventory # 079884

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Most Evil II: Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation and Decryption of the 1970 Zodiac Cipher in which the San Francisco Serial Killer Reveals his True Identity (Inscribed)
• Publisher: Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book, Los Angeles, California
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942600453
• ISBN 13: 9781942600459
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • True Crime
  • Serial Killers
  • Signed Books

About this title

Synopsis

Most Evil II is Steve Hodel's follow-up investigation (2009-2015) into his father's potential murders and introduces new evidence and additional linkage obtained by him over the past six years.

Included in that evidence, is the solving of the Zodiac's forty-five year cryptic cipher, which gives us the answer to the question asked in Most Evil, "Were Black Dahlia Avenger and Zodiac the same serial killer?"

The solution of that cipher provides us with the name of San Francisco's most infamous serial killer. However, it is not presented as just another "theory" from some armchair detective, or even from the author himself, a highly respected, veteran LAPD homicide detective. Rather, the solution comes from the killer's own mouth, written in his own hand--it is Zodiac's personally signed confession! 

 

About the Author

Steve Hodel was born and brought up in Los Angeles. Now a private investigator, he spent almost twenty-four years with the LAPD, most of them as a homicide detective-supervisor. During his tenure, he worked on more than three hundred murder cases and had one of the highest “solve rates” on the force. He currently resides in the Los Angeles area. Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder, published in 2003, became a New York Times bestseller and was a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Nominee. Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel published in 2009, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Steve’s Black Dahlia investigation and related books have been featured as full-hour segments on: Dateline NBC, CBS' 48-Hours, A&E's Bill Kurtis Cold Case Files, Discovery Channel's “Most Evil,” and "The Truth about the Black Dahlia" on NBC Universal.

Visit his website at stevehodel.com