#2 in the Luis Mendoza series. This 1961 police procedural is mild by today's standards but it was groundbreaking for a Latino Homicide Lt. and a female writer in a male dominated field. The homicide crew decides that a drug overdose is not an accident or suicide and now must find the murderer. M...
The debut novel for LAPD Lt. Luis Mendoza in a series that would eventually have 38 titles. Here is Elizabeth Linington, the "Queen of the Procedurals", writing as Dell Shannon in a novel that was a Finalist 1961 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The concept now seems somewhat worn, but that is a...
I love Del Shannon's Luis Mendoza mysteries. I'm sure I read this one years ago, but it's been so long I'd forgotten most of it. I like how the detectives are always stretched to cover a multitude of cases in every book. It does make it a little confusing sometimes to remember exactly which vi...
#3 in the Luis Mendoza series. Mendoza is made aware of the shooting death of a patrol officer by the officer's partner who believes the boys arrested for the shooting could not be guilty. Meanwhile, a con artist has apparently made off with the bank deposit of a marginally legal Temple. One of h...
DEll Shannon wrote over 20 books in the Luis Mendoza series. The early ones were okay but focused on one crime only; the last few were pretty much formula.But Mark of Murder was written when the series was at its height. It is an excellent police procedural. Medoza and his officers are well ...