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Sins of the city : the real Los Angeles noir / Jim Heimann.
Fine Arts Library HV6795.L6 H45 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heimann, Jim, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Crime.
- California--Los Angeles.
- History.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle Books, [1999]
- Summary:
- The author of "May I Take Your Order" offers a daring photographic compendium of vintage vice in Los Angeles from the '20s to the '50s, the true-life pictures of a milieu immortalized in the hard-bitten novels of Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley, and James Ellroy. 200 photos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 159)
- ISBN:
- 0811823199
- OCLC:
- 40126267
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