SMFS Members Published in Mystery Readers Journal: Southern California Mysteries, Volume 40, No. 1, Spring 2024

Several SMFS list members have published essays in the Mystery Readers Journal: Southern California Mysteries, Volume 40, No. 1, Spring 2024 issue. Published earlier this week by Mystery Readers International, the read is available at the website. The SMFS list members that reported they were published in the issue are:

 

Curtis Ippolito with the author essay, "San Diego: Where Paradise and Crime Meet."

 

Sybil Johnson with the author essay, "Sand, Surf, Murder."

 

Gary Phillips with the author essay, "Through a Lens Brightly."

 

Jennifer Slee with the author essay, "If At First You Don't Succeed..."

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

·         Vintage Hollywood Crime by Aubrey Ney Hamilton

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·         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