Books like Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Raymond Chandler

Philip Marlowe spins a hard‑boiled Los Angeles mystery that turns routine into a jewel‑caper, double murder, fortune‑teller intrigue and corruption.

James Ellroy’s hard‑boiled crime novel follows detectives as they unravel Los Angeles’s darkest mystery, the unsolved murder of the Black Dahlia, blending gritty police work with atmospheric noir.

James Ellroy’s gritty noir jazz in 1958 Los Angeles follows corrupt LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein as federal investigators turn the city’s underworld into a deadly prison of power and betrayal.

James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential is a hard‑boiled crime novel set in 1950s Los Angeles, following a trio of detectives as they uncover a web of corruption and homicide within the police department.

A collection of thirteen short stories by Raymond Chandler that were not incorporated into his novels, drawn from Black Mask and Dime Detective, showcasing his development of hard‑boiled detective fiction.

When a young woman's body is found on the grounds of Belle Vie plantation, Caren Gray, the estate manager, takes it upon herself to uncover a decades‑old mystery tied to the plantation’s slave quarters and her own hidden past.

True story about two young men from affluent families who, under the code names "Falcon" and "Snowman," commit a brazen act of espionage, by selling some of America's most sensitive secrets to the KGB.

""Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity." - Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire. On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'. Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but - in the end - a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world's favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home"--|cProvided by publisher.

Raymond Chandler reflects on his own life, the craft of mystery writing, Hollywood, and notable cases while sharing letters, articles, and unfinished chapters of his final Philip Marlowe novel.

Hardboiled Los Angeles mystery featuring Philip Marlowe in a plot of double-crossing, secrets and fatal ambition.