Three years ago, on the occasion of the announcement of its sale, I wrote a post entitled " A Conjurer's Guide to Lost Los Angel...

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

Decades after his death, and with a shelf full of biographies, Raymond Chandler still hasn’t given up the last of his secrets.  I know,...

I was honored when Caroline Donahue recently invited me to appear on her literary podcast, The Secret Library , a congenial place where wr...

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...

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...

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