Los Angeles Central Library

This guide to Los Angeles Central Library opens on April twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six, when smoke began curling from the stacks and a fire investigators would call the worst in American library history burned for more than seven hours, destroying four hundred thousand books. It follows the case against Harry Peak, a young aspiring actor whose story of where he was that day kept changing. Listen for the mosaic pyramid tower above the entrance, its torch-bearing hand meant to symbolize the Light of Learning.