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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for
a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph Los Angeles, the late
1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ... Dix
Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A. after the war,
looking for a new life. But the city is gripped by fear of a
murderer in its midst. Dix, however, is not scared. And when he
bumps into his old friend Brub, now a detective on the trail of the
culprit, he is excited to follow the police's progress. A dark and
terrible truth is revealed, in a noir novel like no other.
Just as Hughes's earlier books had engaged with the political
issues of the 1940s - the legacy of the Depression, and the
struggles against fascism and rascism - so 'The Expendable Man',
published in 1963 during Kennedy's presidency and set in Arizona,
evokes the emerging social, racial and moral tensions of the time.
"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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Dread Journey (Paperback)
Dorothy B. Hughes; Introduction by Sarah Weinman
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In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
Dorothy B. Hughes; Afterword by Megan Abbott
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'Puts Chandler to shame ... Hughes is the master we keep turning
to' Sara Paretsky After the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has
moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young
women. Bumping into an old friend, now a detective working on the
case, Dix is thrilled by closely following the progress of the
police. And meeting his new neighbour, sultry and beautiful actress
Laurel Gray, brings even more excitement into his life. But the
strangler is still prowling the streets - and Laurel may be in more
danger than she realises... In a Lonely Place was adapted for film
in 1950, with Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele.
Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled
with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to finish
Julie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in Occupied France
for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but
not low enough. Because now she has the Gestapo, the FBI and her
shady Uncle, the Duc de Guille, all on her tail, and her options
are running out. Whispers of the Blackbirder reach her - a sinister
figure who, for the right price, can promise safe passage across
the border to New Mexico. Finding the Blackbirder is her only
chance of escape - but what if the Blackbirder doesn't want to be
found? 'Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia
Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir' New York Review of Books
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