"It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a
presumably educated, civilized man." And Hugh Denismore, a young
doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix,
is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem
to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a
few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick
up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why
is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in
Arizona a few days later?
Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia
Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like" In a
Lonely Place" and "Ride the Pink Horse" she exposed a seething
discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity.
With "The Expendable Man," first published in 1963, Hughes upends
the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that
engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all
American crimes.
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