Raymond Chandler Los Angeles Noir, Spy, Mystery Map

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. There's the crummy dive where Moose Malloy went looking for Velma; the actual lounge where Marlowe and Terry Lennox ordered gimlets; the top-floor suite where oil executive Chandler got his priceless education in how the corrupt sun-drenched city really operated. Mixing locations from the books, the films and Chandler's personal life, this is the Los Angeles that Raymond Chandler carried in his heart. And now, you can too.