If you find yourself in the Los Angeles area this month (and you can also find your way through the smoke), Esotouric Tours has a couple of noir-themed events coming up. On September 12th, it's the Birth of Noir tour based on the films of James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity). On September 19th, you can take John Buntin's L.A. Noir tour, based on Buntin's true-crime book of "the haunts, hits, and harems where some of the most shocking and influential moments of 20th century crime history played out."
If hard-boiled is more your taste, Esotouric has two Raymond Chandler tours in October, Raymond Chandler's Bay City on the 17th and Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles on the 24th.
Once you've whetted your appetite for tours and saved up a few more pennies, you can also sign up for the Smithsonian's Classic Mystery Lovers England or the Stockholm City Museum's Millennium Tour, following the sights and sites featured in Steig Larsson's crime fiction trilogy.
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