Raymond Chandler’s noir stories, which blazed the trail for the genre, are famously set in the ever-squalid, neon-lit city of Los Angeles. It served as a sultry muse for Chandler as he created one of literature’s most iconic private eyes, Philip Marlowe, and his exploits with sleazy thugs, corrupt cops, and femmes fatales. “I had an office in the Cahuenga Building,” Marlowe narrates in the 1943 novel The High Window, “sixth floor, two small rooms at the back. One I left open for a patient client to sit in, if I…
