Appearances

New York City
Reading/Talk
Date: July 10, 2008
Time: 2PM
Location: Brooklyn Public Library-Brighton Beach
16 Brighton First Rd. at Brighton Beach Ave.
Contact: (718) 946-2917

Ann Arbor, MI
Kerrytown Book Festival
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008
Time: 4PM
Location: Farmer's Market, Ann Arbor
The Feminine in Historical Fiction:
Moderator Joellyn Clarey leads panelists Megan Abbott, 
Cordelia Frances Biddle, Suzanne Arruda & Kathryn Miller Haines

New York City
Angry Men Who Kill: Violent Thrillers
A Mystery Writers of America Panel Discussion
Date: October 21, 2008
Time: 6:30PM
Location: Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street, New York, NY 
Contact: 212.755.6710
Moderated by Cordelia Frances Biddle with George Anastasia, 
Philip Cioffari, Merry Jones and Duane Swierczynski

June

St. Louis, MO
Suspense Night
with Reed Farrel Coleman, Ridley Pearson and Scott Phillips
Date: Thursday June 5, 2008
Time: 7PM
Location: St. Louis County Library
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63131-3598
www.slcl.org
Contact: (314) 9949411

April

Philadelphia, PA
NoirCon
Date: Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, 2008
Location: Society Hill Playhouse, 507 South 8th Street Philadelphia, PA
Click here for more information.

New York City
The Big Read Comes to the Merc
Letting Go: Books Into Film
Date: April 15
Time: 6:30PM
Location: Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street, New York, NY
Contact: 212.755.6710
Moderated by Jonathan Santlofer
As part of the National Endowment of the Arts Big Read, the Merc,
the Grand Central Partnership, Mystery Writers of America, NY and
the USO of Metropolitan New York will celebrate Dashiell Hammett’s
classic novel The Maltese Falcon during April 2008.

Crime Fiction Panel with Theresa Schwegel, Alafair Burke
and Daniel Judson
Date: April 28, 2008

Time: 7:30PM
Location: Port Washington Public Library, Lapham Meeting Room
Contact: (516) 883-4400

Miami
A Hell of a Woman: Female Crime Writers in Conversation
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008
Time: 10AM
Location: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
300 N.E. Second Ave., Room 2106, Miami

Date: Monday, March 10, 2008
Time: 1:30PM.
Location: Miami Dade College, Hialeah Campus
1780 W. 49th St., Hialeah

Panel discussion and reading with authors Vicki
Hendricks and Lynne Barrett.

Dames, dolls, vixens, gal Fridays and femmes
fatales: women in noir crime writing have played
memorable roles, sometimes criticized as
stereotypes and sometimes admired for their power.
Now women writers are telling stories from female
points of view in neo-noir, looking at the motives,
secrets, and fates of women who¹ll risk everything.
Co-presented by the student life department at Miami
Dade College¹s Wolfson Campus in celebration of
Women¹s History Month. Free and open to the public.

Date: Thursday March 20, 2008
Time: 8PM
Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street
Contact: 212 334-9676

Featuring Richard Aleas (Songs of Innocence, Hard Case Crime) 
and other authors. Hosted by Rachel Kramer Bussel.
Free candy and cupcakes will be served.

Texas
Murder by the Book with Christa Faust
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2008
Time: 4:30PM
Location: 2342 Bissonnet Street, Houston TX
Contact: (713) 524-8597

New York City
Date: Thursday, February 7
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Barnes & Noble-Bayside
23-80 Bell Blvd.
Bayside, NY
*Featuring Queens Noir editor Robert Knightly and contributors 
Denis Hamill, Megan Abbott and Alan Gordon.


Date: Saturday, February 9
Time: 2pm
Location: Queens Public Library--Forest Hills Branch
108-19 71 Avenue.
Forest Hills, NY
*Featuring Queens Noir editor Robert Knightly and contributors 
Megan Abbott, Alan Gordon and others TBA.

San Francisco
Noir City
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008
Time: 5pm to 7pm
Location: Castro Theatre
Followed by the world premiere of Eddie Muller's Grand Inquisitor, an
adaptation of his Hell of a Woman story and starring legendary
 blacklisted actress Marsha Hunt (Raw Deal).

The Black Lizard Book of the Pulps
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Time: 6:30pm

Location: Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street
Featuring Otto Penzler's enormous anthology of fiction from the Golden Age of the Pulps. Megan Abbott, Geoffrey O'Brien, George Pelecanos and Jonathan Santlofer will be reading from the book.

Partners & Crime Bookstore with Sarah Weinman, SJ Rozan, 
Charlotte Carter, Annette Meyers, Alison Gaylin, Rebecca Pawel, 
Lisa Respers France, Alafair Burke, Reed Farrel Coleman, 
Jonathan Santlofer, Jason Starr, Wallace Stroby, Stephen Whitty
and Charles Ardai

Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: 44 Greenwich Avenue (corner of Charles)
Contact: (212) 243-0440


Naomi Hirahara, Megan Abbott, Eddie Muller, Cornelia Read 
and Christa Faust at Book 'Em in Pasadena

Robert Ward, Cornelia Read, Naomi Hirahara, Eddie Muller, Christa Faust
Charlie Huston, Kevin Burton Smith and Megan Abbott at Mystery Bookstore in Westwood.

Latitude 33 Bookshop with Theresa Schwegel, Eddie Muller
and Christa Faust
Date: Friday, November 30, 2007
Time: 6:30PM
Location: 311 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach, CA
Contact: (949) 494-5403

A Hell of a Woman Launch Party
at the Mystery Bookstore
with Christa Faust, Naomi Hirahara, Charlie Huston, Eddie Muller,
Cornelia Read, Theresa Schwegel, Kevin Burton Smith and Robert Ward.

Date: Saturday, December 1, 2007 
Time: 2PM 
Location: 1036-C Broxton Ave, Westwood
Contact: (310) 209-0415

A Hell of a Woman Group Signing with Christa Faust 
and Cornelia Read
Book Em Mysteries

Date: Sunday, December 2, 2007 
Time: 1PM 
Location: 1118 Mission Street, Pasadena
Contact: 626-799-9600 1-800-4BOOKEM

Panel: Hardboiled Fiction, with readings by Megan Abbott, Jason Starr,
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes and David Dante Troutt

Rocky Sullivan's (Readings at Rocky's)
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2007
Time: 8PM
Location: 129 Lexington Ave (btw. 28th and 29th)
Contact: (212) 725-3871

M is for Mystery
Date: Saturday, June 23, 2007
Time: 2PM
Location: San Mateo, CA
Contact: (650) 410-8077

Date: June 2, 2007
Time: 10:30-11AM
Location: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Booth 2750-Mystery Writers of America

Special 5th Anniversary Reading
16 authors each read one page of someone else's writing 
that inspired them
Date: June 3, 2007
Time: 3PM
Location: Sunny's Bar, Red Hook
253 Conover Street, between Beard & Reed Streets
For directions click here.

Colorado
High Crimes with Vicki Hendricks
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: 946 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO
Contact: (303) 443-8346

Murder by the Book with Vicki Hendricks
Date: Saturday, June 9, 2007
Time: 12PM
Location: 1574 S. Pearl Street, Denver, CO
Contact: (303) 871-9401

Date: Sunday, June 10, 2007 
Time: 3:30PM 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contact: (310) 209-0415

Latitude 33
Date: Monday, June 11, 2007
Time: 6:30PM
Location: 311 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach, CA
Contact: (949) 494-5403

Texas
Murder by the Book with Vicki Hendricks
Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Time: 6:30PM
Location: 2342 Bissonnet Street, Houston TX
Contact: (713) 524-8597

Arizona
Poisoned Pen presents...
Noir Night with Sara Gran and Vicki Hendricks
Date: Wedneday, June 13, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: 4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Suite 101, Scottsdale, AZ
Contact: (480) 947-2974/1(888)560-9919

Partners & Crime Bookstore with Richard Aleas
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: 44 Greenwich Avenue (corner of Charles)
Contact: (212) 243-0440

Date: Saturday, April 28, 2007
Time: 2-3PM Akashic Noir booth with Wall Street Noir contributors

Aunt Agatha's Bookstore (Ann Arbor)
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Time: 7:30PM
Location: 213 South Fourth Avenue, Ann Arbor
Contact: (734) 769-1114

Borders Bookstore (Birmingham)
Date: Friday, February 23, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: 34300 Woodward, Birmingham
Contact: (248) 203-0005

Supper Sleuths (Romeo)
Romeo District Library
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2007
Time: 11AM
Location: 65281 Van Dyke Washington, Romeo
Contact: (586) 752-0603

Texas
Murder by the Book
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: 2342 Bissonnet Street, Houston TX
Contact: (713) 524-8597

Mysterious Galaxy with Theresa Schwegel
Date: Friday, January 26, 2007 
Time: 7 pm
Location: San Diego

Date: Saturday, January 27, 2007 
Time: 2:30PM 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contact: (310) 209-0415

Book Carnival with Theresa Schwegel
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2007
Time: 1PM
Location: Orange, CA
Contact: (714) 538-3210

M is for Mystery with Theresa Schwegel
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: San Mateo, CA
Contact: (650) 410-8077

Third Place Books with Theresa Schwegel and Naomi Hirahara
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: Lake Forest Park, WA
Contact: (206) 366-3316

Left Coast Crime 
17th Annual Western Mystery Fan Convention 
Date: Thursday, February 1 through Sunday, February 4, 2007
Location: Renaissance Seattle Hotel

Panel: Noir: It's the New Black
Date: Saturday, February 3, 2007
Time: 10 am
Panelists: Con Lehane, Megan Abbott, Cornelia Read, Edward Wright, 
Moderator Tim Wohlforth

Seattle Mystery Bookstore with Theresa Schwegel
Date: Saturday, February 3, 2007
Time: 12-2PM
Location: 117 Cherry Street, Seattle
Contact: (206) 587-5737

New York
Partners & Crime Bookstore with Theresa Schwegel
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Time: 7PM
Location: 44 Greenwich Avenue (corner of Charles)
Contact: (212) 243-0440

Black Orchid Bookstore with Theresa Schwegel
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2007
Time: 6:30PM
Location: 303 East 81st Street (Between 1st and 2nd)
Contact: (212) 734-5980

November
Lipstick and Bourbon
A Cinematic Tour through Film Noir
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Location: Grosse Pointe Public Library, Woods Branch
Time: 7:30 pm
For details, call

September
Boucheron 2006
37th Year of World's Leading Mystery Event
Date: September 28-October, 2006
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Panel: HARDBOILED WRITERS PLOT A COZY/COZY WRITERS PLOT A HARDBOILED NOVEL Date: Saturday, September 30, 2006
Time: 9 am
Panelists: Megan Abbott, Jason Starr, Dorothy Cannell, Parnell Hall, Les O'Kane/Leslie Caine and the PanelMaster, Duane Swierczynski.

July
Sunday at Sunny's Reading Series
Date: July 9, 2006
Time: 3 pm
Location: Sunny's, Red Hook
253 Conover Street (between Beard & Reed Streets)
Reading with Patrick Symmes, author of Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend and a multimedia presentation by photographer/poet Tim Davis, author of My Life in Politics.

April 2006
MONDO MYSTERY WRITERS BOOK SIGNING EVENT
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Time: High Noon
Location: Borders, 461 Park Avenue at East 57th Street
Phone: 212-980-6785
In celebration of the 60th Anniversary Edgar® Awards the Mystery Writers of America have assembled some of the most popular and best-selling authors from around the country to meet readers and sign books in person.

2006 Edgar® Week Symposium
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2006
Time: 2:30-3:20pm
Location: Lighthouse International
111 E 59th Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues)
New York City

Hammett & Chandler, Still Relevant... Ever Relevant to Women?
Moderator: Reed Farrel Coleman, Author, Edgar® Nominee and MWA EVP (THE JAMES DEANS)
Panelists:
Megan Abbott, Author, Edgar® Nominee (DIE A LITTLE)
Laura Lippman, Author (TO THE POWER OF THREE)
Michele Martinez, Author (THE FINISHING SCHOOL)
S.J. Rozan, Author (ABSENT FRIENDS)

Have the Old Boy Icons Lost their Luster? Do Marlowe and Spade Hold any Allure for Today's Women Authors

March 2006
Books on the Lake Series
Talk and Reading
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Grosse Pointe Public Library
For details, call

Sleuthfest 2006
Presented by the Mystery Writers of America, Florida Chapter
•Moderator, "The Truth About Hollywood" with authors Paul Levine, Rita Lakin and Bruce Cook
•Panelist, "Dialogue Is More Than Just Talk" with authors James Grippando, Cathy Pickens and Julie Hyzy
Date: March 2–5, 2006
Location: Westin Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, FL

October
Reading Room Series: Where Writers Take Center Stage
Hard Case Crime Night
Date: Monday, October 31, 2005
Time: 7pm
Location: Mo Pitkins House of Satisfaction
34 Avenue A, between 2nd & 3rd Streets
New York, NY
"Hard Case Crime founders Charles Ardai (aka Richard Aleas) and Max Phillips are joined by Jason Starr, Megan Abbott, and the ghost of Cornell Woolrich to celebrate the true spirit of Halloween."

September
Bouchercon 2005
36th Annual World Mystery Convention
Date: Thursday, Sept 1, 2005
Time: 9am
Location: Sheraton Hotel
Chicago, IL
Sex Sells! Writer or Character? A Panel Discussion with authors William Seil, Tim Broderick, Jodi Compton, Joel Ross.

August 2005
Dames, Guns and Gumshoes: A Noir Summer
Talk and Reading
Date: Monday, August 1, 2005
Time: 7pm
Location: Baldwin Public Library
Birmingham, MI