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Passage cue: Musso & Frank says Raymond Chandler wrote several chapters of The Big Sleep in its Back Room, and the restaurant states that Chandler mentioned it in the novel. (mussoandfrank.com) Why it matters: Chandler's noir depends on Los Angeles feeling mapped, not invented from nowhere. A real Hollywood dining room gives the fiction local grain: old polish, bohemian crosscurrents, and a sense that glamour and corruption sit at neighboring tables. That is an inference grounded in Chandler's documented association with the restaurant and the site's literary role in Hollywood. (mussoandfrank.com)