James M. Cain Wrote Here

This is 2966 Belden Drive up in the Hollywood Hills, where James Cain wrote Double Indemnity, Serenade and Mildred Pierce, among other classic stories. (The Postman Always Rings Twice was written at Cain's house in Burbank, according to Roy Hoopes' biography.) Cain thought the place was haunted, and once wrote about the ghost in a newspaper column:

[The ghost seems to] see everything you do, hear everything you say, and disapprove all the way down the line as a matter of principle."

Still:

"[California] hasn't got the climate for ghosts. In this fragrant night, with the bright stars shining overhead, the lights of Hollywood blazing far below... our ghost is a flop."