Susan Kandel is an American author of a series of mystery books set in Los Angeles featuring sleuth CeCe Caruso, a vintage clothing fashionista and biographer of mystery writers. Kandel's background is in art history, having been an art critic, university teacher and editor of an art journal. Books I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason Not a Girl Detective Shamus in the Green Room Christietown: a novel about Vintage clothing, Romance, Mystery and Agatha Christie Dial H for Hitchcock See also List of female detective/mystery writers List of female detective characters References External links Official website Living people American mystery writers American women novelists American art critics Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American novelists American women journalists Women mystery writers American women critics 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women