This Saturday 12/8, climb aboard Esotouric's "Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles: In A Lonely Place" bus tour. Seats are still available for $55/person, which includes complementary Scoops gelato, at www.esotouric.com or phone 310-995-4591 after 8am on Saturday to reserve your spot and pay at the bus. Tour check in is 12:30pm at Lincoln Heights/Cypress Gold Line station.

ABOUT THE TOUR
Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death. This was Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, which resonated from deft and melancholy fits of his writer’s bow.

Join Esotouric's Richard Schave as we go down the mean streets that shaped Chandler's fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a four hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding environs: Musso & Frank, Union Station, the Hotel Van Nuys, Paramount Studio’s gates, and much, much more.

Through published work, private correspondence, screenplays and film adaptations, we trace Chandler’s search for meaning and his anti-hero Philip Marlowe’s struggle to not be pigeonholed or give anything less than all he has, which lead them both down the rabbit hole of isolation, depression, and drink.