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7,042 ratings1,018 reviews. Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect.
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Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.
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Oct 3, 2023 · P rolific noir writer Dorothy B. Hughes has 14 novels to her name, but, for its daring first-person narrative told from the perspective of a serial killer, In a Lonely Place is perhaps her most...
Aug 15, 2017 · by Dorothy B. Hughes (Author), Megan Abbott (Afterword) 4.5 1,404 ratings. See all formats and editions. A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.
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Aug 22, 2017 · Her best known is "In A Lonely Place." A new edition of the novel has just come out, and our critic at large, John Powers, says Hughes' version of noir is excitingly radical.
Jan 27, 2018 · Author Dorothy B. Hughes. The suspense builds as we follow Dix through his late nights and bleary afternoons, brooding alone with the blinds shut against the California sunshine. Most of the action takes place largely in Dix’s mind — the proximity to his perverse mania is unsettling.
Sep 15, 2023 · Published in 1947, Dorothy Hughes’ noir novel In a Lonely Place is a masterpiece of crime fiction whose influence has extended to both books and films, including a 1950 movie adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart.
