Hills of Homicide: San Francisco

Because Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, will be held in San Francisco October 14-17, 2010, it was only natural that J. Kingston Pierce of The Rap Sheet put together several San Francisco Crime posts under the title: Hills of Homicide.

San Francisco is everybody's Favorite City, so it's not surprising that so many crime writers and producers set  their books, films and TV shows here.

Jeff (J. Kingston Pierce) asked me to post my  Top 10 San Francisco-backdropped Crime Novels.  Thought the task would be simple, but it sure wasn't. Think it would have been easier to name my top 10 L.A. crime novels. But I love San Francisco, so I was up for the challenge. I chose books for their specific San Francisco City & County setting, so that excluded many novels that take place in the surrounding cities and countryside.  I started with The Maltese Falcon, of course. I also listed David Dodge's Death and Taxes. Check out the list HERE.

Kelli Stanley put together a list of her favorite San Francisco Noir films. I concur with her great selections.

And, Jeff put together his list of San Francisco Crime TV shows. Of course, The Streets of San Francisco are on the list.

Mystery Readers Journal had two issues devoted to San Francisco Mysteries in 2008.
Check out the Table of Contents: San Francisco I. San Francisco II. We also had an earlier issue of San Francisco Mysteries in 1995.

Want to dig a little deeper into all the crime fiction set in the San Francisco Bay Area? Check out Randal Brandt's Golden Gate Mysteries.

See you in San Francisco at Bouchercon!

Litquake X: October 9-17 San Francisco

Litquake X has announced it schedule and there are several Mystery panels and events. All of San Francisco's a Stage when this Festival gets started. Venues include bars, bookshops, churches, schools and during tours. More than 450 authors participating. Every genre!

Mystery related panels and talks. More to be added. What have I forgotten?

Saturday, October 10: Kirsten T. Saxton, author of Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680-1760: Deadly Plots (Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, England 2009) appears on The Way Things Were: Biography and History with T.J. Stiles, Dan Dion, Linda Himelstein, Kirsten T. Saxton, David Helvarg, Gary M. Pomerantz. San Francisco Main Library 11 am-12 noon!

Tuesday, October 13

Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk, at noon and 7 pm.
Center for Literary Arts, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose.

Thursday, October 15

Subterranean SF: Hard Boiled Writing with an Edge, 7 p.m.
Noir and Mystery in San Francisco. Bourbon & Branch. Cara Black & Others

James Ellroy, author of Blood's a Rover, 7:30 pm. Books Inc in the Castro, 2275 Market

For the full schedule, go HERE.