Los Angeles as Crime Fiction’s Most Dangerous Character

Mystery & Crime • Research & Forensics • Writing Craft
2011
Featuring Chris Aldrich, Denise Hamilton, Marcia Clark, Robert Ward, Wendy Hornsby

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Los Angeles is a city of beauty, danger, and contradiction. This panel explores how writers use its neighborhoods, cultures, and hidden corners to fuel crime fiction and turn the City of Angels into a vivid and complex character on the page.

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