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PICTURE GALLERY
Launch party for The Dark Streets, spring 2007, at the home of Donna Wilkinson. The author talking to Dick Lochte. (The extra year delay between books is due to the collapse of Carroll & Graf--as far as I can tell taking most of my hardcovers down some black hole, and the necessity of moving to my new publisher Pegasus Books.)
Launch party for Dangerous Games, spring 2005, at the home of Diane Stewart. The great raconteur Dick Adler (in red) turning over the floor to the author for a reading.
Launch Party for Terminal Island, spring 2004, at the San Pedro Public Library.
One contingent of the T-shirt brigade at the launch party for City of Strangers, April 2003.
Front row, Donna Wilkinson, Author's mom Ruth, Sarah Cooper;
Back, Jeffory Hart, from the Mystery Bookstore, the balding author, my brother Michael, Michael's wife Julie, LLon King in Stetson, superfan Diane Stewart, Mike Harris, Frank Wilkinson, Patrick Millikin.
Left Coast Crime, Portland, 9 AM March 22. Panel on "The Noir Story as Social History." Ed Goldberg as moderator, John Billheimer, Eddie Muller, John Shannon, David Walker.
Left Coast Crime, Portland, 2:30 PM March 22. Panel on "Political Correctness." (Off shot at left: Mary Daheim}, Larry Karp, Stephen Booth as moderator, John Shannon (see no evil), Gary Phillips. At which John launched his first major counter-attack against the anonymous reviewer in Publishers Weekly who published a very bitter attack on his latest Streets on Fire, for including "diatribes against racism" in a mystery novel.
Current author photo, by David MacDougall
Bruce Cook (Alexander) and the author sign their latest books for Book 'Em Mysteries at the L.A. Times Book Festival, April 20, 2001.
Book Launch Party for The Orange Curtain, Dick Adler, Bruce Cook and the author dramatize the "Jack Liffey meets Phil Marlowe" scene. April 14, 2001
Author being interviewed by the Mystery Maven, Coffee, Tea and Mystery, Garden Grove. April 21, 2001
Author at Coffee, Tea and Mystery
Gathering inspiration for The Orange Curtain.
Gary Phillips, the author, and Bruce Cook (Alexander) dramatizing a scene for the launch of Bruce Alexander's The Color Of Death. January 2001.
Gary Phillips, Michael Connelly, the author, at Mysterious Book Store. 2000
Chris Thompson, the author, his mother Ruth, his brother Michael, at launch party for The Cracked Earth. February 7, 1999.
Author's mother Ruth at launch for The Cracked Earth.
Discovery at my local supermarket. 1999.
Author's temporary home visited by the village headman, Mpinganjira, Malawi, Central Africa. 1968.
Author as copyboy, night shift, Long Beach Press-Telegram. 1960.
Author, practicing to be a reporter, 1952.
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