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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another interesting collection of crime scene photographs of Los Angeles. Among the images of corpses and crime scenes there are some great historical photos of LA, including some amazing scenes of what the down town area looked like before it was developed. This book contains graphic images and is not for everybody. ( ) no reviews | add a review
New in town, huh? Look around, kidpalm trees, movie stars, glittering promises of fame and fortune....Now look closer, and you'll see the real action in the City of Angels: goons and thugs, backroom dice clubs, motel room cheesecake shots, crusading cops, and a few unlucky saps who didn't make it out alive. Sins of the City is 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, and such films as Criss Cross, Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and LA Confidential. Pore over 200 shots of the people, places, and events that only tabloids such as Hush-Hush, Confidential, and Whisper dared publish. Witness the LAPD bust a floating casino, see a dapper Bugsy Siegel "before" (living) and "after" (deeply deceased), and marvel at the criminal excess of marijuana-stuffed suitcases. Author Jim Heimann has scoured archives and newspaper morgues for prime examples of Southland's inglorious past, presenting a compelling history of its notorious corruption. Sure, it's a tough city, but thankfully someone was there to record it all. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)364.979494Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Criminology Biography And History North America West Coast U.S. CaliforniaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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