Hollywood and Crime

Robert J. Randisi, author of more than a dozen mystery novels, is also the editor of more than twenty-five anthologies. He is the founder of the Private Eye Writers of America, the creator of the Shamus Award, and co-founder of Mystery Scene magazine. He lives in Missouri.

“ The 14 stories in this entertaining anthology from Shamus Award–founder Randisi span Tinsel Town history from the 1930s to the present and intersect, literally, at Hollywood and Vine. Top Bosch story, "Suicide Run," and to Lee the detection and the latter for biggest laughs. Other highlights include Max Allan Collins and Three Stooges, Moe Howard, as a detective in their clever "Murderlized," about the 1937 death Robert S. Levinson delivers a wicked portrait of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in "And the Winner stop a Nazi sharpshooter at the 1960 Academy photographer at Hollywood & Vine Studios to intersection, all the tales pay homage to the storied Hollywood street corner.”