Los Angeles Noir - Denise Hamilton [0]
Published by Akashic Books
©2007 Akashic Books
Introduction ©2007 Denise Hamilton
Series concept by Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple
Los Angeles map by Sohrab Habibion
ePUB ISBN-13: 978-1-936-07016-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-22-4
ISBN-10: 1-933354-22-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006938153
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L.A. is epidemically everywhere and discernible only in glimpses.
—James Ellroy, “James Ellroy Comes Home,” 2006
It occurs to her that what she most appreciates about this City of the Angels is that which is missing, the voids, the unstitched borders, the empty corridors, the not yet deciphered. She is grateful for the absence of history.
—Kate Braverman, Palm Latitudes, 1988
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
PART I: POLICE & THIEVES
MICHAEL CONNELLY Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Dive
NAOMI HIRAHARA Koreatown
Number 19
EMORY HOLMES II Leimert Park
Dangerous Days
DENISE HAMILTON San Marino
Midnight in Silicon Valley
PART II: HOLLYWOODLANDIA
JANET FITCH Los Feliz
The Method
PATT MORRISON Beverly Hills
Morocco Junction 90210
CHRISTOPHER RICE West Hollywood
Over Thirty
HÉCTOR TOBAR East Hollywood
Once More, Lazarus
PART III: EAST OF LA CIENEGA
SUSAN STRAIGHT Downtown
The Golden Gopher
JIM PASCOE Los Angeles River
The Kidnapper Bell
NEAL POLLACK Commerce
City of Commerce
LIENNA SILVER Fairfax District
Fish
GARY PHILLIPS Mid-City