Dorothy M Hughes

Illustrations of Chaucer's England

Illustrations of Chaucer's England

Illustrations of Chaucer's England

A Study of Social and Constitutional Tendencies in the Early Years of Edward III: As Illustrated More Especially by the Events Connected with the Ministerial Inquiries of 1340 and the Following Years

In a Lonely Place

Ride the Pink Horse

In a Lonely Place

Ride the Pink Horse

Dread Journey

On a transcontinental train, a starlet fears her director may be trying to kill herFour years after she arrived in Los Angeles, Kitten Agnew has become a star. Though beautiful and talented, she’d be nowhere without Vivien Spender: Hollywood’s most acclaimed director—and its most dangerous. But Kitt...

The So Blue Marble

An actress finds herself caught between her ex-husband and a pair of murderous twinsAt the age of twenty-four, Griselda Satterlee has already lived two lifetimes. A star of the silver screen, she gives up Hollywood after a year, and moves to New York to become a designer. While her ex-husband, Con, ...

The Fallen Sparrow

An escapee from a Spanish prison hunts for his best friend’s killer in New YorkFor more than a year, Kit McKittrick languishes in a Fascist prison, his days spent in darkness and his nights tortured by fear of his limping jailer, whose name he never learns. He escapes Spain with the help of Louie Le...

The Blackbirder (Femmes Fatales)

A classic World War II-era noir with a page-turning plot, a cast of colorfully sinister characters and a protagonist who is thrust into the heart of political intrigue, this captivating 1943 novel parallels the spy novels of Grahame Greene, Eric Ambler, and the films of Hitchcock and Lang. But in -s...

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall (Library of America)

The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline. Though women crime and suspens...

Ride the Pink Horse

Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, his boss, 'Sen' - a crooked, 'weasel-faced' Senator, who has set up the murder of his wealthy wife and made it look like a bungled robbery. Sailor is the only person who can finger Sen for the crime, and...

In a Lonely Place (Femmes Fatales)

"Puts Chandler to shame . . . Hughes is the master we keep turning to."Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski novels"A superb novel by one of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense. . . . What a pleasure it is to see this tale in print once again!"Marcia Miller, author of th...

The Body on the Bench (a.k.a. The Davidian Report)

Although more a sort of spy novel than a noir, "The Body on the Bench" (also known as "The Davidian Report") is pure Hughes from the descriptions to the characters. The Davidian Report is a secret document smuggled out of Berlin. Strangers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles are thrown together...