In a lonely place (Paperback)
B., Hughes, Dorothy (Author)
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Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark.
Reviews
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 i...
ISBN (SKU)
9780241639184
Pages
240
Weight
184g
Dimensions
198x130x14
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Published
12, July, 2023
Genres
Crime & Thriller
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