- 480-page hardcover book - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Taschen - ISBN: 978-3-8365-6076-4 - What's wrong in Tinseltown? asks Taschen 's book Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir . An exploration of the darker side of Hollywood's Golden Age, it details the organised crime, corruption and headlines that inspired the novels and movies that came to be known as the noir genre.