Goodreads asked Chip Hughes:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Chip Hughes Raymond Chandler's fictional landscape in his Marlowe detective books is intriguing to me for various reason, but also because it depicts Southern California in the 1940s before freeways and over development and smog, etc. I grew up in an LA suburb in the 1950s and 60s, when pristine blue skies were disappearing as well as the paradisal qualities that prompted so many people to come west. What I'd do in Chandler's landscape is breathe deep, hike the foothills, and enjoy the clear view. Of course, Chandler's noir detective landscape is something quite different from the natural backdrop in his works I'm trying to explain!

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