Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood »

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.

Thrilling new stories set during Tinsletown's glittering criminal past by today's top mystery writers.

Publishers Weekly

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 billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, "Suicide Run," and to Lee Goldberg's "Jack Webb's Star"—the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs. Other highlights include Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens's reinvention of one of the Three Stooges, Moe Howard, as a detective in their clever "Murderlized," about the 1937 death of the Stooges' mentor, vaudevillian Ted Healy. Robert S. Levinson delivers a wicked portrait of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in "And the Winner Is...," which turns on her lackey's efforts to stop a Nazi sharpshooter at the 1960 Academy Awards. From Harry Bosch's visit to a photographer at Hollywood & Vine Studios to Moe's meeting at a coffee shop at that intersection, all the tales pay homage to the storied Hollywood street corner. (June)