He knows L.A.’s flowers, birds and trees: pepper, Italian cypress, eucalyptus. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.” Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. It was one of those hot dry Santa Ana’s that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. “There was a desert wind blowing that night. Marlowe knows the feel, the smell, the pulse, the dirty corners and the unconfessed sins of Los Angeles. His novels, among them The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), and The Lady in the Lake (1943), are widely considered masterpieces of noir crime fiction. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) created the character of hard-boiled L.A.
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