TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Introduction
PART I: KISS KISS BANG BANG
	PAUL CAIN	Downtown
	Murder in Blue	1933
	LEIGH BRACKETT	Santa Monica
	I Feel Bad Killing You	1944
	JAMES M. CAIN	San Fernando
	Dead Man	1936
	CHESTER HIMES	South Los Angeles
	The Night’s for Cryin’	1937
PART II: AFTER THE WAR
	ROSS MACDONALD	Beverly Hills
	Find the Woman	1946
	NAOMI HIRAHARA	Terminal Island
	The Chirashi Covenant	2007
	JAMES ELLROY	West Adams
	High Darktown	1986
PART III: KILLER VIEWS
	MARGARET MILLAR	L.A. Canyon
	The People Across the Canyon	1962
	JOSEPH HANSEN	Venice
	Surf	1976
	WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT	Pacific Palisades
	The Kerman Kill	1987
PART IV: MODERN CLASICS
	WALTER MOSLEY	Watts
	Crimson Shadow	1995
	JERVEY TERVALON	Baldwin Hills
	Rika	1994
	YXTA MAYA MURRAY	Echo Park
	Lucía	1997
	KATE BRAVERMAN	Bel Air
	Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta	1990
	Acknowledgments
	About the Contributors