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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Presenting: How To Find Old Los Angeles, a guidebook to the city that was... and still is!

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I'm pleased to announce the release of How To Find Old Los Angeles, my second title from Herb Lester, the stylish London-based publis...
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Celebrating Raymond Chandler's 128th birthday with a noir book and bus tour sale

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On July 23, 1888, Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago, a smart, sensitive kid dealt a strange deck that would, in time, make him...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Noir scribes canoodle at the 37th Annual Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show

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It was a packed house at the Glendale Civic Auditorium on April 3 as collectors of pulp fiction, vintage paperbacks, weird art and exploi...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Kept Girl Kept Days book sale - Kindle and Paperback editions

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When I plotted The Kept Girl , I chose to set the action over seven sweltering summer days in late August/early September, 1929. To comm...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

A Conjurer's Guide to Lost Los Angeles

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Bank of Italy lobby, 1923 When writing The Kept Girl , I drew on historic photographs and postcards as source material for many locatio...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Cover Girl

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Over the holidays, J. Kingston Pierce's The Rap Sheet blog polled its crime fiction-loving readers to name their favorite genre book ...
Friday, December 19, 2014

KPCC's "Serial" Season 1 finale and debrief at the Crawford Family Forum

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A lively conversation on the complex legal, ethical and journalistic issues raised by the podcast Serial was held on December 18, 2014 a...