Here ’s the just the position to indite your first / next noir chef-d’oeuvre : James Ellroy ’s Hollywood Hills home . The author of L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia is selling his three - bedchamber 1920s abode for just under $ 1.4 million . Not include : multiplebookshelves filled with his own works .
But if you already have a couple million lying around to endue in Southern California real the three estates , you’re able to credibly afford to find fault up some of Ellroy ’s crime fiction on your own . ( The sleek mid - century New furniture he unsurprisingly seems to favor , however , will cost way of life more than a softback . ) The house does go jolly sweet , asVariety ’s Real Estalker describes :
The three bedchamber , and two vintage - tiled - bathroom residence keep on a variety of original architectural details , such as hardwood floors and arched windows and doorways , and is furnished in a cinematic if spare manner that resound Ellroy ’s meticulously loot - down prose . The support room boast a fireplace and luxuriously - coved cap , and opens to a walled garden ; the dining room is light by antique wrought - smoothing iron fixtures ; and the caboose kitchen has a build - in breakfast banquette and slab - marble countertop . A 2d , corner open fireplace ground the master bedroom where French doors pass to another walled courtyard and , set high on the steep side behind the house , a freestanding , studio / situation has reddened brick story , an break wood cap , a private patio and a bathroom that Ellroy had completely cover — bulwark , floor and ceiling — with appropriately noir jet - shameful tile .
Curbed Los Angeles has a ton more photos ( look closely and spot all the framed artwork trumpeting Ellroy ’s accomplishments invest the walls),right this path .
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