Mystery Writers Will Star at Fund-Raiser

A campaign to create a $1-million endowment for the city library system will kick off April 14 with a luncheon featuring three Southern California mystery writers.

The nonprofit Anaheim Public Library Foundation, formed in 1995, hopes to establish a permanent endowment by 2002 for buying books and other reading materials, and securing funding to replace or remodel the main city library.

“Our immediate goals,” foundation treasurer Bob Decker said, “are to work on the purchase of at least one new bookmobile and to tie in the library’s computer system with schools and the business community so we can all have better access to library resources.”

Appearing at the “Crime a la Carte” luncheon will be Jan Burke, a Seal Beach resident who has written four novels; Alan Russell, a 1995 recipient of a Critics’ Choice award and author of four novels; and Wendy Hornsby, an Edgar Award winner whose latest novel was cited as one of the six best mysteries of 1995 by Publisher’s Weekly Magazine.

Tickets are $35 a person or $250 for a table of eight. Reservations: (714) 254-1742 or (714) 778-2035.