Dark City The Real Los Angeles Noir
Betty Rowland reclines on a sofa backstage at the Follies, c.1938
Two suspects are kept in check by a police officer in downtown LA
A reluctant suspect winces as a police officer takes things into his own hands
A cigar-chomping detective examines the murder weapon, c.1940
Edited by Jim Heimann, Taschen, Price £75, 480 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-8365-6076-4
It's often been said that behind the California smile there lies a darkness. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in Los Angeles,