The languid ray of a searchlight prodded about among high faint clouds…. “The lights of the city were an endlessly glittering sheet. From his first short story Blackmailers Don’t Shoot, published in 1933, LA is the centerpiece of Chandler’s-and his characters’-world. But the colored light fooled you.”Ĭhandler saw Los Angeles through a dark glass, but he was undoubtedly seduced and enthralled with the City of Angels. “It smelled stale and old like a living-room that had been closed too long. “I smelled Los Angeles before I got to it,” he says in The Little Sister. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees” and crooked cops. Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making.
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