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Sorry forgot how long that that ramp is at the beginning it's picked for ever to get there but you know we're talking about private I think particularly l.a. Private eyes and I guess it's sort of a misstep to start by talking about John Shaft but a lot of ways he sort of embodies the modern version of the classic private Come shoe. And and we'll talk about that tonight Detective Stories mysteries in general why are we so addicted to them next with our guest Dalia Schweitzer you could link up to her at coast to coast am dot com and find out more in the Quick Takes series Ellie Private Eyes next on coast to coast am this is Ian Punnett . 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So much enjoyed your work on Ellie private eyes I'm sure you won't mind if we pull back the lens a little bit wider and talk about private eyes in general and then more specifically about the l.a. Brand on the way a little bit later on this hour you're cool with that. I did you know so great work really interesting I don't. I work mostly in true crime I'm very interested in it in the writers of the narratives in the end how we use true crime story. And there aren't as many like real detectives that have come out of true crime as there are the detective models that we have from from crime fiction however. There's that the thing about no are and that's where it will start there you know the idea of the Sam Spade character. The Nick and Nora Charles even to a degree but the movies of you know the songs the the way in which we approach our culture talking about the the lone detective the lone wolf detective who is out there righting a wrong is so firmly implanted in our culture and now the the world as well but in a lot of ways it really does start just it there is a focus of how these stories have suffered epicenter in l.a. You want to address that right out of the box store and actually before I get into that I have say that the original working title for my book was the lone wolf Oh was it really yes. But rockers like it wasn't it wasn't descriptive enough of what actually about but in my book proposal it says alone. So I I grew up one big mystery and I read mystery that had nothing to do with Los Angeles you know I mean I started off with like the p.d. Of Brown and Nancy Drew the hardy boy. That I have. And then when I moved to Los Angeles which was then to say it was sort of like an added twist to the decadent luxury of opening up a mystery was opening up a mystery that would describe the city in which I now live but I always felt like kind of an outsider and it was always. Very fun and fascinating to see through the detective's eye you know what traffic was like on the one o one or city hall or whatever and so that's where the interest 1st began and then I thought oh I want to put together a class on this because this would be you know an interesting thing to teach and then I think I was surprised that the l a 5 I actually hasn't been around for that long because it feels though time less than iconic that the fact that it really started with Raymond Chandler the bottom 100 years ago right of life wow there's this really thick you know sort of starting point. And then just sort of all the connections but they just how different Los Angeles is than for instance you know New York City to go back to you know shap who does their edu or detective whereas in Los Angeles there's something so weird about Los Angeles I think maybe that's what I was trying to understand when I moved here it's 1st of all it's a city that has no center right in this Rawlings Rawling thing and so the private detective becomes the person who sort of like your tour guy because most people in l.a. You know they they live in a certain neighborhood they work in a certain neighborhood and you tend not to step outside that the onus and so the private detective becomes the sort of tour guy who takes you you know up into the hills where the rich people live down in the you know the more I change or a working class area as. Well you the one hand the private sector become very important for his ability to kind of not only travel geographically but also to travel in terms of class and l.a. Has you know very very rich people and very very poor people and again most people tend to stay within their own demographics of the private detective becomes essential preferred as being the different classes that you have throughout Los Angeles you know than but this is this is true you know so that while that's true again you know specifically in l.a. All over the country though I think that's where when you when we hear steven and when we look at stories like the shaft stories or we look at Mill a you know private detectives that same model exists of the outsider so when you said you know what genocide as an outsider when you came to l.a. And so this he that he became. You know your Virgil as you know taking you through the underworld you know and that's where that's the role. Love the private detective that they are suspicious of the of the wealthy they're suspicious of proper society they're more at home with the cigar chomping glass white of a bartender in some seedy Doc bar who is also his banker you know or something like that you know that that these sort of unofficial. Unofficial society exists on a completely different basis in the underworld of these cities and that's hugely attractive obviously to readers of all economic and social backgrounds and then to follow up on that part of the appeal of Los Angeles is this idea that it kind of the Wild West I mean and I don't know as much in that way now as it was then but you know back. In the early 20th century in the $193040.00 you know a language being in this way where gangster Hollywood starlet were running around together going to a party you know there was this idea that Hollywood the very. You know that it was really kind of like the Wild West and so the private detective what kind of like the cowboy like me kind of like the sherif who would sort of ride around and try to keep things in line so that I that I'd be all of that just in terms of geography that this is like the western most point you can go before the ocean. And it's very different sort of the East Coast than ability you know the we were actually just talking in the previous hour with Nick Egan who wrote the book on Chasing Cars be and. She talked about how however true it is about the corruptness of Hollywood and how well Hollywood has a way of you know because of their own financial interests of controlling narratives about its stars about its young people and so they do horrible things and we know that historically that's true stars that have you know killed people but they had the Hollywood press machine behind them that kept these stories from becoming mainstream or or or even being known by police and so it a town which is otherwise known in many ways for its liberal in this it has this very much mob like you know aspect to it when it comes to protecting its financial interests 0100 percent and I don't think that you know that's not a recent thing and I think that you know you go back to the Black Dahlia murders and Marilyn Monroe's that and you know that it's like well what Hollywood started studios were able to carefully control as. A star sort of persona but of course inevitably you get cracked in the. The sort of. The corrupt tales and forget the name of the actor who are a Flynn. What. I just blurted out Errol Flynn I don't know if that's not you I think it was the one who killed the woman in his hotel room oh you're talking about Fatty Arbuckle Yeah yeah yeah at a party he was accused of killing a woman which he ended up right because story of her career but it was that again that would kind of point to the fact that like oh my god Hollywood is like you know this it's this is pretty pretty on the surface but then you pull back the curtain and this this you know ordered mess and corruption and rape and all that right and and so this is where I've you know it sort of crosses what what I study in true crime but that's so intriguing So you mentioned about the both about the idea of the sheriff who's kind of cleaning up the town and whatever I produce from a slightly different perspective I don't know how you'll track with this but. You know the Jascha will have it was. You know obviously known as being sort of in some ways the real pro to a coal you know hard boiled detective creator and he you know these the multis Falcon you know glass key these are you know these are these are big stories in the history of a detective fiction and and he's a lot of what drove him wasn't the idea of being the sheriff cleaning up the town was he he didn't like any systems he was much more personally kind of an anarchist then he was you know they're worse in any aspect of society he was he was sort of anti you know in some respects who sort of anti-American because he had become so disenchanted with America that he wrote these detectives that's why they didn't have a bank account these private detectives didn't you know they didn't have a boss they lived in crappy places sort of reflected his attitude about America in general and they were just you know a lot of these detectives were just subversive they just wanted to bring it all down and we hear that language even you know talking about them bringing people down and I'll bring it to their knees and whatever and that's were a lot of it I think that's why we relate some of it to some of those detectives you're absolutely right I think that when I use they now do with the sheriff that was the director the right that the private eye is not only given outside of the people and I didn't think with the sort of the system or the and the whatever and that's why he's so often in conflict with the Pollini right yet he can't he doesn't fit in the sort of regular American it is then sort of like that why as you said you know he he might not have a banking pal and he definitely can't be merry he is if he if he owns a home probably a crappy home and we rarely see and then it you know that this very kind of renegade you probably have not on Facebook you know certainly like. Reading between the cracks. Curious when I was reading about about Dashiell Hammett and his early crime fiction. His character the Continental Op. Did you ever read any of the continental up stories I've read them and I'm. And that ing right. Well in some respects Continental up we never know what city Continental Op is in. Interesting I didn't know that yeah so it's very very like he uses So Continental reflected the fact that Dashiell Hammett was one of the few crime fiction writers in one of the few true crime writers to in its early days who actually had been a Pinkerton detective he had to tech tive. And he he took. He had come from really came out of World War one. In the his experiences as like an ambulance driver and he was he saw the worst. Of War and he saw these you know giant patriotic war machines as being against the little guy and so his stories are steeped in this and they never ever know the name of the continental Continental operative for the continental detective agency which was essentially Pinkerton but that was interesting that he so he brings that sensibility of he doesn't get along with his boss he doesn't he doesn't trust anybody and he it's he that those early seeds of stories of women who attempted to curry favor with him using their feminine you know Wiles you know wouldn't work because he was he was so poorly against everybody as the lone wolf that that he he was the he could only be trusted to be trusting him self and if he ever trusted anybody it was his partner who invariably gets killed and leaves him alone Wolf you know in the stories. Well I think the birds were in San Francisco is I think the later one right no no so that some of them are some of them are based with another when you don't like you'll get a call to go to a place and they use all of these phony names for towns so there are you know it's not quite They never quite give you an actual geography of where he is or what he's in the refer to things like central city or something like that in it because the disability more than the big u.s. But anyway so that the some of what we're going to talk of a bit I want to ask you so why is it that we need these mysteries what is in your studies what how do what why do we want these detective stories what do we get out of them well one thing I can tell you is my previous book was called going viral and looked at outbreak narratives and basically depictions of viral outbreaks in the end of the world and film and television and when I finished with that book I thought I needed to sort of cleanse the palate right and so not intending to make private eyes my next book I just started watching with my private eye shows because I find them really comforting because even if you know the the world is on fire at the end of the episode at the end of the film there's been some kind of you know logical you know connecting of the dots and then at least temporarily peace and been restored. And so for me that was very very thin thing and so I think that part of you know that there is this kind of like you know that we can we can rely on the the detective who you know I think connect the dots to save the good guy or save the good girl you know it's exposed the criminal whatever so there's this kind of reassuring thing there. And then another thing that I think is interesting and. Nowadays I feel like we're all sort of amateur private detective you know we all can like look people up on line and find needles pictures of them with their as the blah blah blah and it's like we're just saturated with so much information and so I think that another quality of the private eye that people will gravitate to is this the villainy to kind of cut through the noise and be able to identify what information is relevant and how and so I think I think those are sort of the 2 things that are kind of reassuring but insight different ways and then also I think it's this idea of let's see the world through the eyes of the private sector and seeing all these different characters and locations that we would never go to in everyday life kind of like if you think about the early days of television where you could turn the t.v. On and you could see the Eiffel Tower and it was so writing right live like that yeah it's like I can open up you know Michael Connelly book and I can read about all the people that kind of sort of supposedly fictionally lives in the town where I live right I would never meet in real life and for them there's also that kind of vicarious thrill Well we've. Well I will just tell you we might and then I think we will I want to I want to revisit this on the book because I was reading about that while I was reading your new book and I I never had a chance to talk about the zombies and to the world thing I want to I really love to hear your thoughts on that so if the book get to that too coming up with the dahlia Schweitzer and we're talking about l.a. Private eyes but mysteries in general and we will get to a quick discussion about that next to coast to coast am this is Ian Punnett. 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In particular but also you know the idea of detective fiction and how important it is to have mysteries and I think that that that's this idea I think especially as we get around summer and all these books come out in the Be more you know good mystery movies and Netflix and you know on every platform digital or broadcast there's always a. Strong sector of mysteries and whether they're nonfiction mysteries or you know the detective type or whether they're just mysteries in general you know I think this is it speaks we love I think we were dying to think that there's more to life than what we see with her eyes or experience in our money Dane lives when he thinks I actually agree with you 100 percent and I that. It's been you think I didn't think of the connection before but that it's in the book that I'm working on now which deal with. Children television where I think it's also the same kind of thing where the nation with what behind the curtain. Yeah it almost like if you accept everything in your life it's just what you can see touch or feel it almost seems to me if that's what you think it's just that's it that's all there is to life what we can experience you know sort of day to day sensory thing if that's all that there is for you sometimes I feel like that just means you haven't a lack of imagination like 300. Is it and I'm not I don't think I'm creating. These mysteries I think there are mysteries that exist although we you we misused the term all the time when we talk about. There is you know things are mysterious until they're not you know we just don't know the answer to them but it's that pursuit of trying to always find something that perhaps nobody else has experienced before and being able that you say to pull back the curtain or put the flashlight on something which. Exposes something that had been there all along which up until that moment that exact moment nobody was for sure existed and I think we are drawn to that we have must have been you know it's like hard wired into us as human beings to have to uncover mysteries. I think that make complete sense and I think it also doesn't have the be something that no one discovered before I think it is something that secret from the majority right now we want to say I think I think a lot of conspiracy theory I think people people are always kind of fascinated that there's like there's a small group of people who know something you want to know what that it right and all part of the same mentality so going back to the idea of the detective. So Dashiell Hammett responsible for Sam Spade and for the great Bogart legal representation on film but that you know having Humphrey Bogart playing in a Dashiell Hammett novel was pretty pretty perfect casting I mean he kind of pulls that off although I think the original. Some of the descriptions of the original the tech device he was sort of maybe a little shorter a little heavier set like even more of an outsider like didn't look good didn't you know his suits didn't fit right in oh there was there was that but then later on with the Jim Thompson. Who becomes like the consummate pulp fiction writer as opposed to say the noir writer he becomes the pulp fiction writer that the other thing that the those 2 guys had in common writing these these stories is that they were both Marxists. They were both communists and then what were saying about exactly they were the whole timid outsider they and they were secret communists they weren't telling anybody that they were communists and that and that was informing this idea of always wanting to expose. America and I think that's an interesting idea because otherwise we think of those detectives as sort of consummate American lone wolf sheriff types when they weren't really necessarily thought of that by the writers themselves no I think you made a good point earlier with the fact that this sheriff analogy doesn't really work because the detective is somehow you know part of be establishment which he's not and I think also if you go back to the Marxist thing a lot of these private eyes are not happen though. You know right then there are also not exactly in America they were anti-capitalist because they were looking at these at these you know banal policing companies and they were seeing these fat cats lighting their cigars with 10 dollar bills and whatever and they were repulsed by that and they were you know this idea of the common man the sort of the Depression era common man and you know they were there they were for the waitress that was working for tips and they were for all the people that were on the low end of the economic scale and they almost had it sort of a deal with the devil to accept money to investigate things but frequently those detectives never actually took any money you know they did it for principle in the end and they never got you know the $20.00 a day. Right they weren't looking to get rich off that but back to the sheriff thing I was and I don't want to come down too hard on that cause I think there are aspects of it that are like that but then the other piece to it is in the Jim Thompson one of his mates most famous stories The Killer Inside Me. There is a sheriff that's cleaning up the town he just also happens in I'm not giving anything away because this is the story the famous story is the sheriff also happens to be the serial killer that's killing all the people and he is also the sheriff investigating himself and that's so perfect for what you know how. You know evolved into into pulp fiction right and you you have one point on that in l.a. Confidential where the only she is the one who's doing all that I think the corruption right wing and all that right or for that matter Chinatown. In that same way it's always that it's sort of that you know the the the bugs under the rock you know if that if they if they they finally were able to pry the rock back in show what had been there all along and all you saw fit to. The point was that the garden you know stepping stone through a beautiful world but you pull up those rocks in the garden and it's not as pretty when you pull the rock back now and that was back in the Fatty Arbuckle in Hollywood and this idea that you know Hollywood so beautiful on the surface but then you know you you pull back the green and you've got all the rights of running around and I think also with the private detective one of the analogy is that I make is that like the weather where you have you know a little piece of yarn you're likely going to have that and then suddenly you you know unravel the whole weather so it always starts where the private eyes hired to investigate you know what kinds of blackmail or a missing daughter whatever it is this very confined kind of way and then of course one he starts digging into it and that being the labyrinth where you know all the piston There are involved and there's a match whether or not the for that only becomes as you say that like you think and I'm just looking for that one bug that one bug under the rock with a rock and then it you know that the confidence right and those cockroaches are the police chief. The bishop you know. Right so he says it's is so corrupt that it's like so it's almost it's almost a you want to say put the rock back put the rock back you don't even know and it's hard to imagine that all of the structures of society are as corrupt as they are made out to be what do you think you mentioned the Black Dahlia earlier and obviously you have a connection in your in your name. So what do you think of that story all these years later we still have yet to solve that mystery and that's a consummate l.a. Mystery story. I think in this thing that it never sort of officially got low I won't we. Kind of got the impression that it was George Codell right you didn't you don't feel like I mean you're more true crime no no no I agree with the hotel theory yeah I do think I always felt like the kind of got all and when I was running is I live around the corner from that's how do you really and that was when I moved into my apartment that was not something they mean it was not like a logistically planned thing but I walk by that house multiple times a day with my dog. And it is just as creepy as you would think. Yeah at the same time right I mean if I couldn't I mean I couldn't imagine living there where I. But so what other than just outside of the you know the text of your book one of the other sort of definitive real life l.a. Mysteries who are often then. Imitated in these novels where they take sort of like the you know that's the archetype of the a bit of the real l.a. Mystery stories which are the ones that you think you know captured the spirit of the city the most. I honestly feel I mean I know we kind of covered it but I honestly feel like the death of Marilyn Monroe and the black. Murders were really kind of pivotal because of what they were like you know because of the women who die and they were so beautiful and it was shrouded in mystery and you know even though people say that with Marilyn Monroe is an accidental overdose there are a lot of different theories and so I think it was never kind of conclusively laid to rest for a lot of people which is also what happened with the Black Dahlia and I think this idea of these actresses who were then somehow destroyed by the Hollywood machine I feel like at least for me those 2 kind of tragic figure really exemplified the worst of Hollywood you know that they've girls come to l.a. You know they have to be a star to be discovered and they end up you know dead in their prime kind of thing . But that's usually you mention those 2 because it a lot of ways they those 2 exist sort of in tension with each other because the black Dalia murder was of a woman who didn't have a career she had tried and had yet to get any success really as an actress or performer even though that's why she came out to l.a. And then Marilyn Monroe who was you know the best known actress in America at that time and so you have those 2 sides of the you know not famous famous both have to do with women both have to do with sexual exploitation both have to do with the men with whom they associated Well you know if we go with the Marilyn Monroe Maryland Rose death was related to you know Bobby Kennedy or the Kennedy family or whatever what is your theory on Marilyn Monroe by the way and her death I will tell you. That on my bucket list is to write a book on Marilyn Monroe and it's one of those things that I will get to eventually I just haven't quite figured out how to approach it it's still sort of massive. The thing that fascinates me the most about Marilyn Rowe and this is what I think is interesting because you were saying that you know she's an example of an actress who has achieved success at the the role that Marilyn Monroe always wanted to play you know what it is 1st Lady Lady Macbeth Oh really wow I know so she thought she really got kind of pigeonholed into that sort of blonde bimbo persona totally because that's what made the studios money and Cheney was desperate to get out of it and she couldn't and that's part of the reasons why she was so unhappy and there's a a moment in the miss this where I forget which of the male characters that is that he's got a picture of Marilyn Monroe often like a block or the Marilyn Monroes you know the actress right rather than wrote the playing the character is next to him and she says something like you know old was that and he says oh it's nobody. Little better joke exactly and then you know her character and 7 year itch didn't even have a name. She was like that I think it was like a tomato from up there with something like that. Cheap she played these roles that were so demeaning and I think that's one of things that intrigues me as I think she like they have there's a whole mystique Brown Marilyn about the fact that she was really difficult to work with and one of my theory again this is you know to be explored in the future is that she was only difficult to work with when she was being forced to do what she didn't want to do so like when she was working for some like a hot Billy Wilder she played this role that was kind of demeaning and there's there's a scene it's been a while since I was doing the research process but there's a scene where there was one line that she she kept forgetting and that my theory is she didn't like the way that Billy Wilder wanted her to deliver that line and so she kept quote unquote forgetting the lines so much that they actually printed out the line and they hate that inside of a drawer and so she would put like open the drawer and then literally just remove the line off and I came or how many takes they did of that stupid line until eventually Billy Wilder gave up and the line was filmed the way that she wanted to say it so I don't I think it's just because there's so many layers of sort of mystique and story and myth and whatever. But I always keep going back to the fact that Marilyn Monroe really wanted to play Lady Macbeth. And. Not Allowed to which is which is interesting because well it took a lot of it took a lot of juice from anybody in Hollywood probably to do Shakespeare which Hollywood was not interested in producing a lot of because it probably wasn't going to do well at the box office but I would have I think you would think Marilyn Rowe as Lady Macbeth in a movie would actually have worked really well. I mean it definitely would have gotten an answer. But then I think the idea the question of whether or not Marilyn Monroe was that well is an interesting one because she wasn't happy with her playing and what. She wasn't happy with the role that she would clank But even though on on the surface she was more success then all of the sort of the Black Dahlia she might have been very you know very interesting. Coming of the top of the hour so I want to say my questions and I'm very curious about your book Going viral talking about zombies in the hole that that too is become a major part of our culture when really. The whole notion of zombies didn't really take off I didn't become part of our culture until the late fifty's or sixty's and then it was just a thing until it is now what it is on so many channels and so much of our. Popular culture but I want to ask you So what do you think knowing what you know about about l.a. Do you think Hollywood is as powerful as it is made out to be in these l.a. Detective stories. Interesting. Yeah I mean I think just. What every any crime like a little story really you know right now I think a lot of this I mean this is like a hard one you're right you know it's like everyone everyone knew what he was doing and did it for decades I mean it was it was like a running joke like you know that was the joke made it and it had me a war about it like yeah like what I thought of was one of the larger ones that want to do it but you don't think of Harvey Weinstein like that's how known it was and no one did anything it was untouchable. Yeah that idea of the untouchable again that that begs the the participation of the hard boiled detective that the more untouchable somebody seems the more they're inspired to bring him down at all costs that that's. The only person who can bring them down is someone who isn't going to be part of the machine isn't going to get paid off you know right and get distracted the uncorruptible. Yeah that's that's true but the so that's a really interesting contrast in the movie l.a. Confidential about that idea one of the cops was was you know incorruptible and he had to compromise in order to be able to win in the end. Well I'm going to ask about I'm going to ask about the zombie thing coming up in just a 2nd with Schweitzer but I also want to talk about women in private detectives and why they just don't get. That kind of space in our culture. As Or or the types of women detectives that do I'll just I'll rephrase it that way what are the kinds of women detectives that we think of. In our detective fiction coming up next and then we'll get to calls coming up in that last hour or 2 I hope he joins us on coast to coast am this is Ian Punnett. 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