Our brand BernieOhls.com is inspired by the District Attorney's chief investigator in the full-length detective story The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. This novel was published during 1939 and it is set in Los Angeles and Bay City. The novel is immortalised in a film by the same name that starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In the movie actor Regis Toomey is Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls.