The 13 most essential L.A. crime books — from Chandler, Hughes, Mosley and Ellroy to Steph Cha and Ivy Pochoda, with some 'Helter Skelter' in between.
Has there ever been a more vivid opening in the literature of Los Angeles? A man pursues a woman from a Santa Monica bus stop down the California Incline on a fog-saturated night. Nothing happens, but the air of menace is so palpable you can feel it in your chest.
Hughes’ novel may be best known for inspiring the 1950 Bogart movie of the same name, but the book is so much better, so much more dark. At its center is Dix Steele, a sociopathic killer masquerading as a writer, who in the end turns out to be too smart for his own good. — DLUChandler’s last great novel is not only a piece of crime writing; it is also an ambitious work of social fiction, with some autobiographical threads.
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