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Dorothy B. Hughes

The Edgar Awards Revisited: Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay (Best Novel; 1954)

By Joe Brosnan

January 4, 2019

Five years ago, through some good luck, I began working for Criminal Element. It wasn’t the destination I had in mind when I started my job search, but after an interview for a role where I wasn’t quite a perfect fit, my interviewer said he might have a different opportunity for me. Enter Criminal Element.…

Page to Screen: In a Lonely Place

By Brian Greene

June 1, 2016

I am approaching this post on In a Lonely Place as a page-to-screen piece, where I’ll compare notes on the novel of that title and the movie that goes by the same name. But really, there’s little in common between Dorothy B. Hughes’s 1947 book and the 1950 film directed by Nicholas Ray. Let’s talk…

The ZINNG: Women Crime Writers, Poisoned Poe, and a Killer Whale

By Crime HQ

September 3, 2015

Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s is a box set of work by Dorothy B. Hughes, Vera Caspary, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar, Charlotte Armstrong, Dolores Hitchens, Helen Eustis, and Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. The website for the collection is worth exploring, with galleries, also essays from Sarah Weinman, the editor, and…

Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes- Dell edition

Lost Classics of Noir: Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes

By Brian Greene

July 27, 2013

Power corrupts. We know this, right? Willis Douglass, one of the main characters from Ride the Pink Horse— Dorothy B. Hughes’s superb 1946 work of noir fiction—embodies the maxim. Douglass, a former Illinois Senator, was once a noble enough man to take in a Chicago street punk named Sailor, put the kid through some schooling…

House Made of Dawn

New Mexico: Crime from the Land of Enchantment

By Richard Z. Santos

January 27, 2012

A wide variety of writers and artists have been drawn to New Mexico. D.H. Lawrence spent the end of his life there, as did Roger Zelazny. Both Cormac McCarthy and George R.R. Martin live near Santa Fe—have fun picturing the two of them getting together for a bowl of green chile stew. N. Scott Momaday,…

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