Friday, January 24, 2025

Mystery Readers Journal LA Wildfire Donation: Join us!

Mystery Readers International is supporting the victims of and responders to the devastating LA Wildfires by donating Mystery Readers Journal funds from the sale of PDFs of our Southern California and two Los Angeles issues. Buy the Southern California and/or Los Angeles issues of MRJ for $5/each, and the money  (including PayPal fees) will be donated to World Central Kitchen and Pasadena Humane. Both charities are on the ground helping victims and responders of the Los Angeles area fires. Support these great charities with us. 

Mystery Readers Journal has reduced the cost of the following 3 PDF issues.  

You can download these issues for $5 each. 

All money including PayPal fees collected for these three issues will be donated by Mystery Readers International and split between World Central Kitchen and Pasadena Humane. You will receive the PDF of the issue (s) you order. 

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Following are the Table of Contents of these issues.

Southern California Mysteries


Volume 40, No. 1, Spring 2024

SoCal Mysteries

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

  • Vintage Hollywood Crime by Aubrey Ney Hamilton

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

  • Why I Love Writing About L.A. by Anne Louise Bannon
  • The Mysteries of True Crime by James T. Bartlett
  • California, the Origins of Reckoning, and the Ty Dawson Series by Baron Birtcher
  • The Lighter Side of SoCal Mysteries by Sally Carpenter
  • Where Rick Cahill Lives by Matt Coyle
  • Technology, AI and Murder Collide in L.A. by Art Chester
  • A Mystery in More Ways than One: A Fascination with Southern California by Elizabeth Crowens
  • Los Angeles Ninja Lily Wong by Tori Eldridge
  • San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter—Come for the History, Stay for the Mystery by Sara Driscoll
  • California in Black and White by Terence Faherty
  • A Different Perspective on Southern California by Earlene Fowler
  • Los Angeles: City of Dreams by Lee Goldberg
  • Kesey & Me by Chuck Greaves
  • The Monkey in Venice by Russell Hill
  • Wendy Stays Home by Wendy Hornsby
  • L.A.’s Mr. Goodbar by Georgia Jeffries
  • San Diego: Where Paradise and Crime Meet by Curtis Ippolito
  • Sand, Surf, Murder by Sybil Johnson
  • Changing Coast Changed My Life by John Lansing
  • The OC, Baby by D. P. Lyle
  • Like So Many Before Me by Larry Maness
  • Mysteries of Southern California by T. Jefferson Parker
  • You’re Right— That’s Exactly What Southern California is Like by Thomas Perry
  • Finding Your Place When You’re Writing About Place by Eugenia Parrish
  • Through a Lens Brightly by Gary Phillips
  • Beach Noir by James Preston
  • Beached by D. R. Ransdell
  • Don’t Give Up the Day Job by Clive Rosengren
  • That Screwy, Ballyhooey SoCal by Robert Rotstein
  • Los Angeles: Boundless, Disturbing, Inspiring by Elizabeth Sims
  • After-Hours by Lida Sideris
  • If At First You Don’t Succeed… by Jennifer Slee
  • Limitless Los Angeles by Patricia Smiley
  • Location, Location, Location by Elena E. Smith
  • Dwelling in the Southern Region of the Soul by David Unger
  • Hollywood, My Exuberant Muse by Halley Sutton
  • The Lair of the Bear by Duane Swierczynski
  • Making a Reader Feel the Character of a Setting by Carl Vonderau
  • What Do You Know? by Pamela Samuels Young
  • Safe, Hope, and Always by Mark Zubro

COLUMNS

  • Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Jay Gertzman, Aubrey Hamilton, Lesa Holstine, Dru Ann Love, Lucinda Surber, and Kristopher Zgorski
  • Children’s Hour: Southern California Mysteries by Gay Toltl Kinman
  • The Trunk Murderess by Cathy Pickens
  • Crime Seen: Southern California Noir by Kate Derie
  • From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph
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Los Angeles Mysteries I

Buy the PDF version of this issue for only $5. All proceeds will be donated to World Central Kitchen and Pasadena Humane Society.

Volume 25, No. 2, Summer 2009

Los Angeles Mysteries I

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

  • L.A.—Where Anything Can Happen by Mark Bouton
  • The Darker Side of Glittertown by P.A. Brown
  • Tinseltown Meets Sin City by Bruce Cook, a.k.a. Brant Randall
  • The Possibility City by Michael Craven
  • L.A. in a Heartbeat by Robert Ellis
  • My Los Angeles by Lee Goldberg
  • I Love L.A. by Gemma Halliday
  • Writing about Los Angeles by Wendy Hornsby
  • A Drive Through the City by Gregg Hurwitz
  • Los Angeles, Mysteries and Me by Linda O. Johnston
  • An Evangelist and Other Tycoons by Ken Kuhlken
  • If You Get Shorty, You’ll Get Me… Hollywood and Satire by Michael P. Naughton
  • L.A., the Wacky Place by Kris Neri
  • The Library of Los Angeles by Linda Reid
  • A Journey into the Past by Linda L. Richards
  • Dark Knights on the Boulevard… by Stephen Jay Schwartz
  • A Notebook, a PT Cruiser, and a Week In L.A. by Elizabeth Sims
  • I Heart Los Angeles by Kit Sloane
  • Seventy-Two Suburbs in Search of a Murder by Robert Weibezahl
  • London as My Los Angeles by Jeri Westerson

COLUMNS

  • Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Randal Brandt, Lesa Holstine, and Verna Suit
  • The Children’s Hour by Gay
    Toltl Kinman
  • The Best of L.A.’s Real Mysteries by Cathy Pickens
  • Letters to the Editor
  • From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

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Los Angeles Mysteries II


Volume 25, No. 3, Fall 2009

Los Angeles Mysteries II
Available as a downloadable PDF.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Crime and Jazz in L.A. by Nancy-Stephanie Stone
  • Ross Macdonald by Tobias Jones
  • Guardin’ Angels – Part Two by Jim Doherty

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

  • Los Angeles Dreamland by Megan Abbott
  • Killing Time in L.A. by Victor Banis
  • Ross Macdonald: An Appreciation by Linwood Barclay
  • Hollywood, Crime, and the Roman à Clef by Jack Bludis
  • Los Angeles Chose Me by Kent Braithwaite
  • Anthrax, the Angel City, and L.A. Noir by John Buntin
  • Go Ahead and Laugh: I Love L.A. by Jan Burke
  • Los Angeles and The Snatch by David Champion
  • Hotline to Los Angeles by Alan Cook
  • Creating the Hollywood Crime Novel by Shelly Frome
  • Found In Translation: L.A. As Mystery Muse by Denise Hamilton
  • Who Polices Los Angeles? by Gay Toltl Kinman
  • A Novel Approach to the Truth by Robert S. Levinson
  • Holy Death and Other Hollywood Mysteries by Harol Marshall
  • Ross Macdonald: Where The Past Is Present by Tom Nolan
  • Excavating Los Angeles by Gary Phillips
  • Want a Makeover? L.A.’s the Place by Penny Rudolph
  • Which L.A.? by Alexandra Sokoloff
  • Crime Writer’s Paradise by Steven M. Thomas

COLUMNS

  • In Short: L.A. by Marvin Lachman
  • Just The Facts: The First Suicide Bomber by Jim Doherty
  • At Home Online: Michael Connelly interviewed by Laurie R. King
  • Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Lesa Holstine and Verna Suit
  • From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph


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