"Brother and sister team, Harry and Dorothy Dixon" (via http://vernordixon.com/Vaudeville.html ). Harry Dixon is H. Vernor Dixon.

I think those are from around 1935. Too old by the time of the crimes?

The book descriptions are interesting (emphasis mine):

Deep is the Pit by H. Vernor Dixon

DESCRIPTION
The beautiful, aristocratic Karen Stannard had married Marty Lee. Too late she found, under his polished manner and his easy smile, a cold-blooded, calculating assassin. She found a man hunted by the women he had ruined and by the police he had defied.

How trust can turn to terror, how love can turn into hate, is the theme of this new, powerful novel by H. Vernor Dixon, author of To Hell Together.

Up a Winding Stair by H. Vernor Dixon

DESCRIPTION
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly.
“’Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I have many curious things to show when you are there.”
“Oh, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain,
For who goes up your winding stair can ne’er come down again.”

They walked in, the women, beautiful women, rich women—greedy women. And Clark Holt took them—for money, for laughs and for everything they had.

Then Ione came, beautiful and willful, and it was the fly who trapped the spider in a web that was silken—and strangling, too.

The Marriage Bed by H. Vernor Dixon

DESCRIPTION
October 5

Wednesday, 1 a.m.

Tonight I have bruises on my arm. Jeff has just left me. I no longer believe he is the same man I married.

The brother is locked in his study, drinking. His face is the twin of Jeff’s, and sometimes I catch him watching me with the eyes of the man I love. But I cannot tell surely.

Someone in this great cliff house is playing a hideous game with me. I begin to think it is more than a game.

I begin to think of insanity.

There a French wikipedia entry for him here which has his DOB as Oct 30, 1908, putting him in his 60s by the time of the Zodiac crimes.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Vernor_Dixon

But, some of his books were published as recently as 2012. Writing at 104 years old? Or old material being released by publisher?

This site has him living from 1908 to 1984:

http://readingcalifornia.typepad.com/re … blood.html

Cry Blood – H. Vernor Dixon (1908-1984) grew up in Sacramento and started writing professionally in his early twenties. He first concentrated on short stories, a collection of which appeared in 1944. He then turned to novels, producing fourteen between 1950 and 1966. Only the first and last came out in hard cover. The rest were paperback originals. The nine written in the 1950s were published by Fawcett Gold Medal. Unfortunately, the lurid covers of the paperbacks, wonderful though they may be as popular art, give a only general sense of what the books are about and no idea of Dixon’s approach to the material.

Also, one of the themes in "Cry Blood" is the press:

He casts a dark eye at the eagerness of the press to raise public fury through sensationalized reports.

Apologies for the continuing spam; I keep pulling on this H. Vernor Dixon thread.

His book "A Lover For Cindy" has a description that reminds me of the beginning of the Bates confession:

http://goldmed.eddiestevenson.co.za/dixon/1.shtml

She was young, beautiful, and very, very rich. Belden Lambert wanted her and her seven million dollars. With grim ruthlessness he pursued her right into the highest society dreaming of the power behind all that money . . .
Then he fell in love with her and for the first time in his life, he wanted to go straight . . .
But first he had to kill a man!!

I think this is him: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC6S-VBR

Good stuff Guys, that’s why I am glad people read thru these letters to the editor. If we were to find names of any Suspects, that would be interesting. I only found a letter from Garreth Penn so far,but who knows what we will find. I am going to get a round of the Jan-July 1969 Napa Letter next, but waiting to replenish some funds, these cost about $25 per month to obtain,so i was trying to do a quarter at a time

I would be interested to see the letters to the editor in the Santa Cruz paper around 67/68 or 74 to 77. Might find something interesting..

I would be interested to see the letters to the editor in the Santa Cruz paper around 67/68 or 74 to 77. Might find something interesting..

Good thing is, we can see those online via a few different sites

First of all, thank you Morf for uploading the newspaper files! I have scoured through all readers’ letters on Vallejo Times-Herald ’68, ’69 and ’74 (the only volume available on Newspapers.com). Phew, quite the job. Yet, I think I found something mildly interesting. I was thinking of subjects that may have been of interest to Zodiac – one of them would obviously be guns.

From Vallejo Times Herald, June 17th 1968:

Gun, knife, rope. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? It stood out to me because I felt that mentioning rope as something that can be used to kill people was so… oddly specific. There are far more common everyday tools that have been used to cause harm.

Bob L. writes again on 8th June:

What stands out to me here is the "your big article… made me very happy". Zodiac expressed his emotional state in quite a few of his letters, e.g. "I shall be very happy to…", "I have grown rather angry about…", "it would cheer me up considerably if…", "I have become very upset…", "I am rather unhappy because…". Bob L. also politely expresses his thank yous just like Zodiac did in the dragon card. And although the overall tone of the text is polite there’s similar aggressiveness to it.

I couldn’t find more letters by Bob L. from the aforementioned years.

I also found a few letters concerning Betty Loud & David:

First of all, thank you Morf for uploading the newspaper files! I have scoured through all readers’ letters on Vallejo Times-Herald ’68, ’69 and ’74 (the only volume available on Newspapers.com). Phew, quite the job. Yet, I think I found something mildly interesting. I was thinking of subjects that may have been of interest to Zodiac – one of them would obviously be guns.

From Vallejo Times Herald, June 17th 1968:

Gun, knife, rope. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? It stood out to me because I felt that mentioning rope as something that can be used to kill people was so… oddly specific. There are far more common everyday tools that have been used to cause harm.

Bob L. writes again on 8th June:

What stands out to me here is the "your big article… made me very happy". Zodiac expressed his emotional state in quite a few of his letters, e.g. "I shall be very happy to…", "I have grown rather angry about…", "it would cheer me up considerably if…", "I have become very upset…", "I am rather unhappy because…". Bob L. also politely expresses his thank yous just like Zodiac did in the dragon card. And although the overall tone of the text is polite there’s similar aggressiveness to it.

I couldn’t find more letters by Bob L. from the aforementioned years.

I didn’t think anything of either letter until the end. The part about knives and rope is chilling and showing extreme disdain for authority at the end of the second is another trademark. These could very well be from him.

I couldn’t find more letters by Bob L. from the aforementioned years.

I know "L." is probably the first initial of Bob’s last name… but I did find it interesting that a Robert L. Barrett was asking the FBI for fingerprints on file. See discussion here.

Holy crap, the opinion letters from "A proud friend" and "Willing to help" are from HIM. No doubt in my mind. I got chills reading those. The fund letters are highly suspect as well. They have the same banal, insincere tone as the other ones. The "you people of Vallejo" line stands out to me as well.

Sounds like all the stuff we read in social media now (about gun laws). Nothing has changed. –Sorry…off topic.

Not sure if it sounds like Zodiac or if it’s just someone frustrated with politics. Lots of military folk in and around the area.