In a Lonely Place - Crime and Espionage

Informationen zum Autor Dorothy B. Hughes Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung '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.

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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 Films

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy B Hughes, Dorothy B. Hughes, Hughes Dorothy B.
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.07.2023
• EAN: 9780241639184
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63918-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Crime; Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage; Penguin Modern Classics - Crime & Espionage
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Los Angeles, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Noir, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, c 1940 to c 1949