Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana ... effect the winds seem to have on residents psychologically. American author Raymond Chandler once ...

LOS ANGELES — Santa Ana winds are common in Southern California ... In the short story “Red Wind,” Raymond Chandler captured the emotional effect: “There was a desert wind blowing that ...

It's hard to do much more because there is fuel - dry vegetation, buildings - and because of the Santa Ana winds blowing ... There's a famous passage from a Raymond Chandler short story in which ...

Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Santa Ana winds are common in Southern California ... In the short story “Red Wind,” Raymond Chandler captured the emotional effect: “There was a desert wind blowing ...