I'm pleased to announce the release of Cults! Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: A Guide To The Highly Unusual, my third title from Herb ...

The Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum in the City of Industry is hosting a Birth of Noir book club series early next year, a...

Crackle, crackle! It sounds like old time radio, but it's actually a recent recording from The Annotated Big Sleep book launch e...

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...