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Everyone seeks the mysterious report that will prevent a nightmare future. Mystery Review: The Davidian Report (also known as The Body on the Bench) was the penultimate novel by Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993), the queen of hard-boiled noir. It's more of a Cold War spy thriller, but still reads like a tough-guy detective story.
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The Davidian Report is a 1952 spy thriller novel by the American writer Dorothy B. Hughes. [1] It was first published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. [2] While many of her previous works had been set during World War II, this shifted the focus to the early Cold War. It was her penultimate novel, followed after an eleven-year gap by The Expendable ...
Jan 1, 1979 · The Davidian Report by Dorothy B. Hughes, quite frankly, flunks the test of time. Written in the early days of the Cold War, this book lacks two important attributes readers of modern day spy novels have come to expect. Namely, a researched-based narrative and imaginative but believable plotting.
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Jan 1, 1970 · The Davidian Report by Dorothy B. Hughes, quite frankly, flunks the test of time. Written in the early days of the Cold War, this book lacks two important attributes readers of modern day spy novels have come to expect. Namely, a researched-based narrative and imaginative but believable plotting.
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Jun 18, 2013 · Books. The Davidian Report. Dorothy B. Hughes. Open Road Media, Jun 18, 2013 - Fiction - 183 pages. DIVDIV To stop a Communist plot, a secretive man searches Los Angeles for a confidential report /divDIV When bad weather forces his flight to Los Angeles to land outside of town, Steve Wintress agrees to share a car with three of his fellow ...
Sep 28, 2013 · A Communist defector has smuggled the priceless Davidian report out of East Berlin, and every secret agency in the world wants it. The report is somewhere in LA. Steve will have to battle the CIA, FBI, and the Communist Party in this adventure.
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Dorothy B. Hughes was an acclaimed crime novelist and literary critic, her style falling into the hard-boiled and noir genres of mystery writing. Born in Kansas City, she studied journalism at the University of Missouri, and her initial literary output consisted of collections of poetry. Hughes' first mystery novel, The So Blue Marble, was ...
