Richard Rayner

author, 'A Bright and Guilty Place'

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Author of A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and LA’s Scandalous Coming of Age

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"LA Noir" is a Hollywood movie genre that goes back to Double Indemnity and includes Chinatown and LA Confidential.  It's all about "a city of big dreams and cruelly inevitable…

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