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Author
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life 'mean streets' that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer s exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going...
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