In a Lonely Place

My favourite crime writer. Full stop – Sara Weinman * Los Angeles Review of Books *Dorothy B. Hughes is the unsung godmother of every feisty female investigator who has hit the streets in the last twenty-five years – Val McDermindDorothy B. Hughes was in a class of her own. To be a female author of hard-boiled fiction back in the 1940s was unusual enough, but to write a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of a male serial killer was breaking new ground by anybody’s standards. She marked out this territory years before most other writers even knew it existed. – Max Decharne, author of Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of Great Crime FilmsIf you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don’t say we didn’t warn you. * New York Times Book Review *Dorothy B. Hughes was in a class of her own. To be a female author of hard-boiled fiction back in the 1940s was unusual enough, but to write a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of a male serial killer was breaking new ground by anybody’s standards. She marked out this territory years before most other writers even knew it existed. – Max Decharne, author of Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of Great Crime FilmsAn excellent novel – David Thomson * Have You Seen…? *A tour de force … The structure is flawless, and the scenes of postwar L.A. have an immediacy that puts Chandler to shame. No wonder Hughes is the master we keep turning to. – Sara Paretsky

Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-93) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived most of her life in New Mexico. A journalist and a poet, she began publishing hard-boiled crime novels in 1940, three of which were made into successful films- The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and In a Lonely Place (1950). In her later years, Hughes reviewed crime novels for the LA Times, the New York Herald Tribune and other papers. She was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

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