The First with the Latest!: Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City - Softcover

Joan Renner is an author and a social historian. Her blog, Deranged L.A. Crimes (derangedlacrimes.com), tells true tales of 20th Century murder, mayhem, political corruption and celebrity scandal.Joan has been an invited lecturer at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, the Los Angeles Police Museum, Los Angeles Public Library and at two California Association of Criminalists seminars. She appeared in a segment on film noir for the Turner Classic Movies series Film Fanatics, and in a History Channel production on mobsters during the 1930s. She has been a featured crime expert in several ID Discovery Channel series including: Deadly Women; Evil Twins; Evil Kin; Hell House; Nightmare Next Door; Dark Places, and Deadly Affairs. Most recently she appeared in Horror at the Cecil Hotel.From August 2015 through January 2016 she curated a photo exhibit at LAPL's Central Library and authored the companion book, both entitled The First with the Latest!: Aggie Underwood, The Los Angeles Herald, and The Sordid Crimes of a City. Joan has worked as a volunteer archivist for the Los Angeles Police Museum and is currently working as a volunteer archivist/consultant for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Museum. She was an integral member of the team that produced a book of historic Los Angeles crime scene photographs, entitled L.A.P.D. '53, co-authored by novelist James Ellroy and Glynn Martin (LAPD retired). The book was published by Abrams and spent four weeks on the Los Angeles Times' Bestseller list.