100 black & white photographs of Los Angeles sites illustrate 60 excerpts from Raymond Chandler's prose work. In their commentary, the authors discuss the geography, architecture, local history, and folkore associated with the locations and the mythical detecive/writer who immortalized them.
Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep, this evocative and elegant book juxtaposes excerpts of Chandler's tough, cynical prose with black-and-white photographs of the city he described as "no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness". 100 photos.