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found Chateau Bercy from “Te Little Sister. As Chandler wrote, “Te Chateau Bercy was old but made over. It had the sort of lobby that asks for plush and india- rubber plants, but gets glass brick, cornice light- ing, three-cornered glass tables, and a general air of having been redecorated by a parolee from a nut hatch. Its color scheme was bile green, linseed-poultice brown, sidewalk gray and mon- key-bottom blue. It was as restful as a split lip.” Lasker also notes between Wilcox and Cahuenga, the Hotel Padre (1924 North Wilcox) as the Senger Building from “Te High Window” and at Santa Monica at Wilcox is the location of the pawn shop from the same story. And his list of Chandler-related places from his life and work goes on and on. Famous authors haven’t just frequented places known for Hollywood nightlife and showbiz. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood 1403 Laurel Ave. in West Hollywood and later with Sheilah Graham at 1443 N. Hayworth Ave. where he wrote, but never finished “Te Last Tycoon”; Writer Christopher Ish- erwood lived in Hollywood from 1929-33 and spent much time at the Hindu faith-based Vendanta Soci- ety of Southern California (1946 Vendanta Place). But it’s detective fiction especially that often gravitates to Hollywood and several modern-day writers maintain characters that travel the streets and live nearby. Robert Crais’ Elvis Cole lives off Laurel Canyon in an A-frame cantilevered house in the Hollywood Hills, and he’s been said to be a neighbor to Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch (they’ve appeared, subtly, in each other’s books – Cole in “Lost Light,” Bosch in “Te Last Detective”), who lives in a stilt house off Woodrow Wilson Drive In the early novels of the series is a detective with the Hollywood Division of the LAPD. Te Bosch novels often navigate Hollywood, mentioning areas such as Beachwood Canyon and the Hightower Apartments 18 DISCOVER HOLLYWOOD / WINTER 2010 and also the bar at Musso and Franks. “Off Highland, just south of the Hollywood Bowl and across from the Hollywood Heritage Museum at 2100 N Highland is Camrose. Drive up a bit and you find Hightower, named for the elevator tower that goes up to a cluster of 1930’s Art Deco units. Tere is also a set of stairs you can walk up. Te tower is set back from the garages for the units above,” Lasker says. Connelly rented an apartment and wrote there when he first moved to L.A. It was also the setting for a murder in a later novel, “Echo Park,” taking place one of the garages. DH Some Novels Set in Hollywood James Robert Baker: “Boy Wonder” Clive Barker: “Coldheart Canyon” Charles Bukowski: “Hollywood” James M. Cain, “Serenade” Raymond Chandler: “The Little Sister”, plus others Jackie Collins: “Hollywood Wives” Michael Connelly: various “Harry Bosch” novels Robert Crais: various “Elvis Cole” novels Joan Didion: “Play It as It Lays” Bret Easton Ellis: “Less Than Zero” James Ellroy: “L.A. Confidential”, “The Big Nowhere”, “White Jazz” and “The Black Dahlia” Henry Farrell: “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” Peter Farrelly: “The Comedy Writer” F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The Last Tycoon”; “The Pat Hobby Stories” Richard Hallas: “You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up” Aldous Huxley: “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan” Elmore Leonard: “Get Shorty” Norman Mailer: “The Deer Park” David Mamet: “Speed-the-Plow” Horace McCoy: “They Shoot Horses, Don't They?”; “I Should Have Stayed Home” Walter Mosley: various “Easy Rawlins” novels. Rachel Pine: “The Twins of Tribeca” Harold Robbins: “The Carpetbaggers” Thomas Sanchez: “The Zoot Suit Murders” Budd Schulberg: “What Makes Sammy Run?” Gore Vidal: “Myra Breckinridge”, “Myron”, “Hollywood” Evelyn Waugh: “The Loved One” Nathanael West, “The Day of the Locust” P.G. Wodehouse: “Laughing Gas (1936)” Gary K. Wolf: “Who Censored Roger Rabbit?” John O'Hara: “Hope of Heaven” F. Scott Foitzgerald