In the early twentieth century, there were small hotels catering to recent Italian immigrants in San Jose. These were clustered around an...

St. James Park  will be published by Koehler Books in August 2025 and is the first novel of a planned triptych about dreams conjured and...

The novel, St. James Park, reflects actual events that occurred in San Jose in 1933. Brooke Hart, was a recent graduate of the then...

During Prohibition, a state official once complained there were more illegal distilleries in operation in Santa Clara County than in any...

Swirling around the Brooke Hart kidnapping was a belief that such a horrendous crime must have originated outside of their community. It...

Long before there was a Silicon Valley, Santa Clara Valley was known for another industry. It was home of the fruit and vegetable food...

In 1933, the Jesuit-run University of Santa Clara thought of itself as well-regarded, elite and intimate. Detractors thought of it as a...

St. James Park is the name of my forthcoming novel about a 1933 kidnapping. Many scenes take place in this park. St. James Park has been...

St. James Park  is an historical novel about San Jose and its environs, a region that existed long before there was a phenomenon called...

Try and Get Me focuses on America’s thirst for vengeance perpetrated by sensational journalism to incite the public’s wrath. Howard...

Fritz Lang’s 1936 Fury  opens in Chicago when Joe Wilson, an ordinary working man, and his fiancé Katherine must separate for months...