Randal Brandt

Mystery afficianado Randal Brandt is a librarian at the University of California, Berkeley where, among other things, he is responsible for building the Bancroft Library’s California Detective Fiction Collection. He is also the creator of two critically acclaimed websites: Golden Gate Mysteries, an annotated bibliography of more than 2,000 works of crime fiction set in the Bay Area, and A David Dodge Companion, which chronicles the life and works of the mystery/thriller writer. He has recently written the introductions to new editions of four of Dodge’s novels.