ORANGE COUNTY NOVELS

      I received a query the other day asking if I could come up with some books set in Orange County. I didn’t have a lot of luck. The only books I’m sure are set there (because the authors say so) are The Adversary by H. H. Lynde and The Face of Evil by John McPartland. Probably set there are The Girl from Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West (largely because she grew up near Yorba Linda). Other possibilities are Hilda Strafford by Beatrice Harraden and The Girl on the Beach by George Sumner Albee. I have reviews for all but the West book. That’s a pretty skimpy collection. I’m guessing that Orange County didn't have much of a literary scene before 1960.