Everyone:
I just finished with a book that I think all of you would enjoy:
The Biggest Liar In Los Angeles, by Ken Kuhlken. (Link to Google Books page, though I personally listened to an audio copy from SDPL.)
A murder mystery set in mid 1920s L.A., this is a great read (or listen) and replete with details of architecture and cityscape right up our alley; some gone but many still extant. The protagonists are the Hickey siblings Tom and Florence, in this book 21 and 16 yoa respectively, living at the Cactus Court Cottages. Aiding and abetting is old friend Leo Weiss, a disaffected, fired, then rehired LAPD detective. Apparently this is only one of the "California Century" series of novels about the Hickey family, which from what I've seen are set in various years throughout the 20th century.
I'm confident the mods and admins are OK with me posting this; everyone knows I've been here for years rather than a spammer-come-lately.