Los Angeles in the 1940s! Suits and fedoras, rampant violence, grotesque racism and corruption. From the Black Dahlia to the Red Scare, LA Noir has it all! #gaming #lanoir #noir adventure #vintage
I was born in the 70s, when LA still looked like the 50s & 60s. They didn’t tear things down as quickly then. I’m trying to find all the pieces of my childhood that still exist…which is harder to do after most of them burned down.

#losangeles #lanoir #urbanlandscape #photography #leica
I'm reading The Long Goodbye and its astoundingly good. I'm not sure how I managed to go my whole life without reading the entirety of the Philip Marlowe series but I'm glad I'm fixing that now. #raymondchandler #lanoir
Das erste Spiel was ich auf dem #SteamDeck spiele ist übrigens #LANoir. Ich habe es schon so oft angefangen, aber nie beendet. Vielleicht klappt es jetzt. Ich mag dieses Spiel, und ich kenne zumindest nichts vergleichbares.
In the footsteps of Raymond Chandler on Olive Street, where he used the Oviatt Building as his model for The Gillerlain Company in "The Lady in the Lake." Nice security guard opened the elevator door so we could peep the carved wooden angels! #esotouricroadtrip #lanoir #DTLA
Back in the 90s, when I was first playing with the idea for Valhollywood, I was partially inspired by the Toby Peters mysteries from Stuart Kaminsky. Peters was a PI who would get hired by the studio fixers to get famous movie stars out of jams. Kaminsky wrote two dozen of these light mysteries. Bullet for a Star, featuring Errol Flynn, was the first in the series.
https://amzn.to/44RT5yu #mysterybooks #classichollywood #lanoir #valhollywood
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The Los Angeles crime fiction scene is as strong as ever, and these authors are at the forefront.

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#LosAngeles #noir #LANoir #Fiction #Books

The Ladies of (Modern) LA Noir 

When I first moved to LA, I felt like I was in another country – and sometimes another planet.  There were red-tiled Spanish mansions, giant Seussian cactuses, and scores of gorgeous, gazelle-like …

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