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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dorothy_BDorothy B. Hughes - Wikipedia

    Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place (1947) and Ride the Pink Horse (1946).

  2. www.newyorker.com › books › page-turnerThe Crime of Blackness: Dorothy B. Hughes’s Forgotten Noir

    Aug 15, 2012 · Page-Turner. The Crime of Blackness: Dorothy B. Hughes’s Forgotten Noir. By Christine Smallwood. August 15, 2012. With this summer’s reissue of the 1963 noir “The Expendable Man,” New York...

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  3. crimereads.com › the-unsettling-existential-noirThe Deeply Unsettling Noir of Dorothy B. Hughes ‹ CrimeReads

    Aug 9, 2019 · Celebrate the dark visions of literature's queen of noir, who wrote novels that conjured up a terrible, ineffable sense of dread. Read some of her finest, most unsettling lines from In a Lonely Place, The Davidian Report, and more.

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  4. lareviewofbooks.org › article › on-the-worlds-finestOn the World’s Finest Female Noir Writer, Dorothy B. Hughes

    Aug 12, 2012 · Dorothy B. Hughes — the B stands for Belle, and Hughes replaced her maiden name, Flanagan, when she married Lewis Hughes in 1932 — is my favorite crime writer. Full stop.

  5. crimereads.com › dorothy-b-hughes-dread-journeyRediscovering Dorothy B. Hughes' Brutal Hollywood Take-Down,

    Dec 3, 2019 · Sarah Weinman praises Dread Journey, a 1945 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, as a suspenseful and psychological study of Hollywood characters on a murderous train. She explores how Hughes depicts the dreams, ambitions, and betrayals of her characters, and how they relate to the role of Clavdia Chaucat.

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  7. womencrime.loa.org › writers › dorothy-b-hughesDorothy B. Hughes | Women Crime Writers of the 1940s and 50s

    Named Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1978. Published Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason (1978), which won her an Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work in 1979. Died in Ashland, Oregon, on May 6, 1993. Read an appreciation of Hughes’s novel In a Lonely Place by Megan Abbott.

  8. www.loa.org › writers › 546-dorothy-b-hughesDorothy B. Hughes - Library of America

    Jul 12, 2017 · 1904–1993. Dorothy B. Hughes (womencrime.loa.org) I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s. “Every Variety of Madness and Malevolence”: Geoffrey O’Brien on American Crime Fiction in the 1960s. In a Lonely Place: Film noir as an opera of male fury. View all. Major works:

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