Using paradoxical spatializations, Raymond Chandler challenges the conventional representation of the Southern California region. The coexistence of heterogeneous elements in Chandler's novels depicts a particular kind of mid-twentieth-century noir genre. These literary spaces, under epistemological tensions, move toward heterotopic descriptions. Finally, this paper calls the literary other spaces produced by Chandler's stories Noir Heterotopias, and concludes that Chandlerian descriptions seek to induce a sense of suspense in their spatializations. Background studies: Since Chandler's first and most successful novel, The Big Sleep, many critics have considered Chandler the voice of Los Angeles fiction. Furthermore, some critics have elaborated on Chandler's particular way of describing urban spaces. Judith Freeman believes: "Chandler accurately reports all the details of the surrounding space" (qt in Kerridge 2009). On the other hand, a significant group praises Chandler for introducing Los Angeles, rather than considering him a crime writer. The present study takes sides with the same group, and relying on Chandler's descriptions, intendsto read his works through a novel spatial lens. Methodology and Argument: The present article studies Chandler's stories with a space-oriented approach. In The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault argues that the researcher's goal is to find small discontinuities that have interrupted knowledge evolution. Discontinuities in the discourse of space in Chandler stories usually occur in crime scenes and heterotopic sites. The common denominator of these three stories, which distinguishes them from the rest of Chandler's works, is the combination of the dark spaces of noir fiction with heterotopic paradoxical spaces. As a result of this combination, a novel type of 'other spaces' is created that, while ensuring the conditions that Foucault predicted, goes beyond his initial definition. Conclusion: Acknowledging that heterotopia theory is consistent with Foucault's method of analyzing the discourse, the examination of Chandler's novels reveals that the heterotopic spaces are intertwined with the dark spaces of the noir fiction. Furthermore, in the stories, the paradoxes do not reach a climax, therefore, this study suggests that the resulting spaces to be called noir heterotopias. Finally, since the stories conclude with a sense of nonfulfillment, and their heterotopic tensions remain unsolved, it can be said that suspension is the key to the new social order that noir heterotopias seek in their descriptions of Southern California. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]