January 31, 2008 - Los Angeles, California. This spring, Stark House Press will release the first two Whitney Logan mysteries—Dogtown and Soultown—in a single edition with an introduction by acclaimed crime/noir author Ken Bruen and an afterword by Mercedes Lambert's longtime friend and literary executor Lucas Crown. Following on the heels of the August 2007 publication of Ghosttown, this spring will be the first time that the complete Dogtown trilogy will be in print.

The Dogtown trilogy was completed in the 1990s by Douglas Anne Munson, who wrote the Whitney Logan mysteries under the pen name Mercedes Lambert while working as an attorney in the Los Angeles criminal court system."I never knew Douglas Anne Munson but I knew her books," Michael Connelly wrote in his appreciation of Mercedes Lambert. "I read them all and loved them all. I loved them most because in the crowded field of authors who chose Los Angeles as the place of their fiction, she was unique. She was brave. She kept her head down and wrote what she wanted to write, explored what she wanted to explore. It didn’t matter who would publish it or who would read it. These were the stories she had to tell—if only to herself. In doing so she gave us characters we hadn’t seen before and took us to places we had never known."

When Dogtown was originally released in 1992 by Viking Press, Carolyn See said in the Los Angeles Times: "Who says an entertaining, charming, unpretentious detective story can’t be…an authentic agent of social change? Without ever making a big deal of it, the author takes on dozens of issues that define our weird metropolis… Dogtown is an excellent, fresh, indigenous thriller."

Viking published Soultown two years later. "...sketched out with lightening strokes," Kirkus Reviews said of the second Whitney Logan mystery, "...fasten your seatbelt for a breathtaking tour of Souttown at its most exhilaratingly lurid."

Ken Bruen, in his introduction to the new Stark House edition, calls Dogtown and Soultown “...just pure brilliant noir classics...” and adds, “She breaks my heart with her beautiful writing."

Ghosttown, the final book in the trilogy, was not published during Mercedes Lambert's lifetime. Completed in 1996, the book went unpublished for ten years. After the author's death in 2003 in Connecticut, at the age of 55, it was found in a box among her belongings in a Los Angeles garage. Her longtime friend and literary executor, Lucas Crown, spent nearly four years seeking a publisher for the book.

Ghosttown was published Five Star Mystery in the autumn of 2007 to substantial praise and attention. Bestselling author Michael Connelly contributed an introduction to the book.

"For these characters, one book was not enough," wrote Connelly . "Now we have three and I still feel shorted. After this I will miss Whitney and Lupe and the strange, wonderful people they encounter. I will miss them for a long, long time."

Author Jonathan Kellerman called Ghosttown "...a noir masterpiece. One of the most evocative LA crime novels ever written."