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Raymond Chandler, The long Goodbye

There are not very many direct descriptions of L.A.

Direct description of L.A.:

Expensive taste: p.9 ¡°the stores along Hollywood Boulevard were already beginning to fill up with overpriced Christmas junk ¡­¡±
Near Mexico: p.28 ¡°seven hours to Mexico City¡±
p.31 ¡°border people¡±
p.33 ¡°it¡¯s a long drag from Tijuana and one of the dullest drives in the state. Tijuana is nothing; all they want there is the buck. ¡­ Tijuana is not Mexico. No border town is anything but a border town ¡­¡±
Criminal actions: p.38 ¡°driven most probably to El Paso, fitted with new keys and forged papers, and put on the market eventually in Mexico City. The procedure is routine. Mostly the money comes back in the form of heroin.¡±
p.51 ¡°a guy can get hisself in a lot of trouble in this town.¡±
Corruption: p.56 ¡°there are some angles we¡¯d rather not go into. After all, the family is pretty influential.¡±......

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Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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