Richard Rayner

A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age (2009)

The best bits of the book are the quotes from Raymond Chandler,example: 'Outside the bright gardens had a haunted look, as though wild eyes were watching me from behind the bushes, as though the sunshine itself had a mysterious something in the light.'and: 'The house itself was not so much. It wa...