Musso & Franks, the oldest restaurant in Hollywood (since 1919) with more here:
Fellow Sisters in Crime below. From the OC chapter (and friends) from left, El Presidente Me, Debbie, Maria, Nanette, and Rob:
From the online group called the Guppies (the Great UnPublished--though many of us who are published remain) from left Pat Brown, Melissa Eiselein, Peggy Ehrhart.
The beautiful Biltmore, where they really should have had the conference, since it reeks of early twentieth century history. Just get a load of this door knob in my tiny 1920s room:
I remember similar knobs at my grandmother's house (only they were purple glass) a few doors down from us in her Spanish revival when we lived at Crenshaw and Slauson. I also remember when the Los Angeles City Hall was the tallest thing in the skyline and when the red car rails (not the cars) ran down the asphalt through downtown.
Below is more of the lush lobby of the Biltmore.
Am I an architecture hound or what? Below, some of the beautiful people who stayed here in 1923:
Below, a panel where the talk was Sherlock, with Lee Child, Laurie King, Les Klinger, Jan Burke, and Michael Connelly.
Yesterday, Robert Crais gave us a rundown on all the famous and infamous crimes that happened within a certain mile radius of the convention. Then he told us where some of the fictional characters from days past to present live in and around LA, and then he told us where some of those authors lived. Did you know that LA is the bank robbing capital of the nation? It's those freeways for getaways.
And before that, Denise Hamilton, Mark Cogins, and Judith Freeman gave us Chandler's LA. In an earlier post, I got to take my own adventure in search of some of Raymond Chandler's residences. I was in the right place at the right time to get a gander inside the only house he ever owned.
Tonight there is a Sisters in Crime sponsored wine and cheese get together at Metropolis Books and tomorrow is the awards banquet, where I am a finalist for the Bruce Alexander Historical Fiction Award. Always a bridesmaid and never bride? We'll see. If you blinked this morning, you missed my panel, but it seemed that a good time was had by all, if the laughter was any indication.
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