The book contains three tours of Los Angeles based on the work of Raymond Chandler. Visit over forty locations referred to by Raymond Chandler in his mystery novels, including night clubs, offices, theaters, city halls, diners--structures that existed in Philip Marlowe's world and that still invite your investigation. Learn about the corruption of city hall during the Thirties, the role of the studios in Raymond Chandler's life and how Bugsy Siegal was a model for one of Chandler's characters. All this and more is inside, as we take a fascinating trip through the city in which the genre of the hard-boiled detective was created!
