William Kerrigan

The last and best novel in the Wallace Kerrigan/Pearl Seagrove mystery series contains a richly nuanced portrayal of Orange County in 1952. The author recreates various aspects of Orange, Santa Ana,...

Raymond Chandler meets Robert Louis Stevenson! The third novel of the Kerrigan/Seagrove series is set in a richly imagined 1932. Wally, still toiling in the film industrty, is Vice President of the...

For years the author believed that 'Santa Barbara Malice' was lost in a computer crash. He was delighted to discover, during a recent cleaning, a disk of the novel resting safely in a seldom-visited...

This lively mystery captures the look and feel, the glamour and practicality, of old Hollywood. The story takes place in Hollywood in 1917, just after America has entered the Great War. Wallace...

Fleeing a humiliating and much-publicized divorce, film scholar Mike Buckman rents a remote cabin on the Griswold Ranch in Black Ash Canyon. The ranch is in Santa Barbara County, near the fictional...

"The Passed On," the second tale of the Ghost Killers, is a master class in California Gothic.Newlyweds Mike and Cheyenne Buckman travel to a seaside mansion in Ventura known as Folly's Cove, where a...

Wallace Kerrigan is Vice President in charge of commercial loans at the Bank of California in Hollywood. He agrees to finance a low-budget noir thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound...

Family saga, budding romance, the dawn of the Hollywood star system, a lively murder mystery-all in one swell book. With his twin brother Warren embarked on the last and surprisingly successful leg...