Can a building be born with a wicked soul? In the heart of Los Angeles stands the Hotel Cortez, an art deco monument whose glamour hides a century of sin. Its chilling design echoes a real-world place of notorious death, the Cecil Hotel. The Cortez's story, however, was forged in nineteen twenty-five by a man of exquisite taste and infinite cruelty: James Patrick March. He didn't just build a h...
