In the first Hector Lassiter novel, Head Games, Hector visited his old friend Orson Welles on the set of Welles’ noir classic Touch of Evil. It was noted in Head Games (set in 1957) that Hector owed Orson a favor connected to… Continue

The Hector Lassiter series is all about secret history — a blending of fact and fiction that aims to get at something like the hidden truth.



Toros & Torsos (aka, Hector Lassiter #2), spins on the premise that surrealist art and theory may have informed or inspired several bloody, unsolved crimes of the 20th Century — most notably the murder of Elizabeth Short, the so-called “Black Dahlia” as she was dubbed by panting L.A. journalists circa January 1947.



The… Continue

The coming Labor Day weekend marks the 73rd anniversary of the Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935 — still the most powerful hurricane to strike the United States. At this writing, another hurricane is threatening the Keys — a tropical storm named Fay.



The ’35 hurricane occurred at a time before tropical storms were given names. Storm forecasting was an uncertain science. And officials charged with the responsibility of informing and evacuating citizenry in the storm’s path were more… Continue