Jon Frankel on Dorothy B. Hughes

IN A LONELY PLACE: DOROTHY B. HUGHES
“SHE KNEW HOW TRAPPED THINGS DIED, THEIR HEARTS POUNDING TOO HARD, THEIR BONES LIKE STICKS.”
-The So Blue Marble

If you are looking for a hard boiled, noir author of the highest order, one you’ve either never heard of or haven’t read, then find books by Dorothy B. Hughes. In the 1940s she wrote about a dozen crime thrillers, then took care of her family before returning, in 1962 with the superb ‘wrong man’ book, The Expendable Man. Most of them are out of print, but the best are available through Amazon. Go right now and order them!

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