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— we’re not sure if it’s the salt air, a bit too much sun or the distance from the mainland but Miami Beach has a strong draw for the notorious, the nefarious and the just plain weird.

She started covering crime on the police beat for the Miami Beach Daily Sun. She moved on to The Miami Herald where she made a name for herself covering murders. Now she’s one of the best-known crime fiction writers around. This interview dates from 1987 and comes from our partner organization, the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives