Buy Gourmet Ghosts, Gourmet Ghosts 2, Gourmet Ghosts – Madness, Mayhem & Strange Stories of Los Angeles – and my Anthony Award-nominated 1953 true crime book The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story that Shocked America – via Amazon
NEXT EVENT! Thursday May 23, 7pm at the Andres Pico Adobe Park in Mission Hills, I am talking about historical crimes for the San Fernando Valley History Society – and I’ll be mentioning “The Alaskan Blonde” too…
Related to that, this article is about my new neighborhood, Toluca Lake, which I had to research in the archives to see if anything deadly had happened – and it had…
Also, there is this CRAZY story in SFGate about “Mad” Jack Morgan, a 1937 pirate who killed the captain of a yacht and held the passengers and crew hostage just off the California coast! AND Errol Flynn has a cameo appearance! https://www.sfgate.com/california-news/article/mad-captain-jack-morgan-piracy-on-aafje-callif-18480909.php
Also, my latest articles for Crime Reads are about the 1929 murder of LA vintner Frank Baumgarteker (and others), probably by mobsters – his body was never found but the case was investigated for years – https://crimereads.com/los-angeles-wine-worlds-enduring-murder-mystery/
and about Lucille Parker and Alexander Mackay (below), two young lovers who committed dozens of robberies in LA in the early 1930s. They were a media sensation – she was called the “red-haired bandit queen”, and he ended up appealing to King Edward VIII for his life – years before a certain Bonnie & Clyde. It’s an amazing story!
The Brief, Bloody Story of Los Angeles’s Own “Bonnie & Clyde”
You can see me with Zak Bagans on the Cecil Hotel and Hotel Barclay episodes of “Ghost Adventures” on Discovery +, and about the Cecil Hotel in the s4 ep 8 “Uncanny Curses” episode of the latest season of The UnXplained, hosted by William Shatner on History.
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Gourmet Ghosts – Los Angeles
The original ghost-seeking book – while stocks last I will send you a copy with a personal message and FREE SHIPPING.
$19.95
Gourmet Ghosts 2
More true crime – murders, suicides and weirdness – and this also comes with free shipping….
$19.95