Best era to set a crime thriller in SoCal:
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The fundamental true story behind L.A. noir is the 1929 Greystone Mansion murder-suicide involving the Doheny family and Teapot Dome oil scandal. It helped inspire oil exec Raymond Chandler to write crime fiction (and Daniel Day-Lewis's role in "There Will Be Blood").
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Idea for an L.A. period noir ... 1941: L.A. sci-fi authors Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Ray Bradbury try to solve a murder mystery. Also helping out are Ray Harryhausen, Fritz Lang, Jack Parsons.
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Has the trope about middle-aged to elderly former hippies sitting in ramshackle bungalows worth 7 figures been mined from every angle yet? A gritty series specifically about neighborhood gentrification might be interesting...
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LA noir real estate: 1987 Sea World deal to buy Marineland, shut it, and take its killer whales ... Has anybody done the Walter O'Malley-Chavez Ravine-Dodger Stadium eminent domain deal yet? La Costa in SD There's an old trailer park in Malibu on beach at Paradise Cove.
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SoCal subprime mortgage bubble noir true story:https://www.unz.com/isteve/movie-quentin-tarantino-was-born-to/ …
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