Fans and collectors sought to connect with the hard-boiled detective writer’s vision of Los Angeles in a recent auction of his personal items, including never-before-published writings.
Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler hated was that ubiquitous Los Angeles demographic: “actors.” The list, simply titled “THINGS I HATE,” was one of dozens of Chandler’s rare personal items auctioned Friday at Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers in Manhattan.
In Chandler’s work, the conspiracies that connected the city’s shiny surfaces with its underbelly had the peculiar effect of making Los Angeles seem both vast and small. Though they are scattered everywhere from Hollywood to Encino, his characters all know each other; they share a firm sense of place, as if they had all been observing while Los Angeles grew unwieldy around them. In “The Big Sleep,” Los Angeles’ expansion explains its increasingly thorny networks of crime.
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