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Mulholland Books

publishing imprint of Little, Brown and Company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ28154190
Source-derived summary

Mulholland Books (US) is an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of the Hachette Book Group. It specializes in publishing mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels.

History

Little, Brown and Company announced the creation of Mulholland Books on June 15, 2010. Mulholland Books is named after Mulholland Drive, a winding stretch of road that follows the ridge line of the Hollywood Hills. The imprint launched in Spring 2011 with the publication of a book by Marcia Clark.

For a time writer and producer Derek Haas curated a series of short stories on the Mulholland Books website under the title "Popcorn Fiction".

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The public source identifies “Mulholland Books” as publishing imprint of Little, Brown and Company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mulholland, Books and publishing.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mulholland, Books and publishing providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mulholland Books”, the useful work is to connect “publishing imprint of Little, Brown and Company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28154190. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Mulholland Books” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.