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Post-mortem on Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles

Marlowe Memorial Chess Set, Hotel Barclay, as featured in The Little Sister

Yesterday, Esotouric debuted the tour Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles: In A Lonely Place, and it was a wild, psycho-geographical portrait of Chandler’s life, work and locales, and those of his alter-ego Marlowe. Here’s a little photographic sampling of some scenes along the way.

Tai Kim’s Bacon Caramel gelato, served up at Scoops in honor of hard-boiled meat-eating men of lore, was a revelation! Nicotine gelato was a fever dream (especially when the little kids kept gobbling sample spoons while their dad ignored them). Mint, Lime & Pear Sorbet was delish. And we raffled off copies of Denise Hamilton’s new Los Angeles Noir anthology to three lucky passengers, courtesy of the good folks at Akashic Press.

Sorry you missed it? There’s a repeat on July 21, and tix are already selling, so grab yours now. 

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Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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