Touring L.A.'s literary landscape

On Saturday, a company specializing in offbeat tours of L.A. will offer "Pasadena Confidential," touted as "delving deep into the weird and horrible past of one of L.A.'s most exclusive suburbs."

Topics explored on the Esotouric bus tour include more than 70 murders, arsons, kidnappings, robberies and suicides having a Crown City connection. Included are the Robert F. Kennedy assassination (Sirhan Sirhan was living in Pasadena at the time), "Eraserhead" star Jack Nance's death and magician-rocket scientist Jack Parsons' "death by misadventure."

Also on deck: A June 16 tour titled "John Fante's Dreams of Bunker Hill," and later in the summer, "Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles."

Orli Low