Somewhere I Belong

October 6, 2009

Dear you and me,

I want to write mysteries like Raymond Chandler wrote mysteries.  Chandler created an LA I look for even now in the shabby streets of Hollywood.  Or in the oiled ooze of Long Beach or La Jolla's shadier sections…not that La Jolla has any.  His world isn't there.  It never was.  But I see it anyway because Chandler made us all see it.   I want to write mysteries like Agatha Christie wrote mysteries.  Sneaky little puzzles right out there in the open, winking and...