Searching for the Great El Segundan Novel

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Steve Harvey:

I wrote about the official who did not want to name a reading room in El Segundo’s public library after Agatha Christie because “she has no connection with El Segundo.”

Afterward, the closest I could come to a prominent book with an El Segundo connection was Michael Katz’s mystery “Last Dance in Redondo Beach.”

But a friend has since reminded me that Mattel, the mother of Barbie, is based in El Segundo.

So I found “Mondo Barbie” by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole (see accompanying), a collection of fiction pieces with such titles as “Twelve-Step Barbie,” “Hell’s Angel Barbie” and “Barbie Comes Out,” in which the young miss links up with Kendra, the recipient of a sex-change operation. Yup, good old Ken.

Plenty of material there for a Barbie Reading Room.

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