Herb Lester Associates - Raymond Chandler Los Angeles - Noir, Spy, Mystery Map

Closed, opens Wed 11amIndependent shop in GreenwoodDirections

Available from Yoshi when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Few writers are as inextricably linked with a city as Raymond Chandler and LA. The neon-lit streets, mobbed-up joints and seedy rooming houses portrayed in his fiction were real places, familiar to Angelenos of the time, and in some cases recognizable today. This is a guide to the world of Raymond Chandler and his noble alter-ego, the private detective Philip Marlowe mixing locations from the books, the films and Chandler's personal life. There's the crummy dive where Moose Malloy went looking f