Search results for ""Author Dorothy B. Hughes""
Atrium Verlag Ein einsamer Ort
£16.00
Vintage Publishing The Blackbirder
Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to finishJulie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but not low enough. Because now she has the Gestapo, the FBI and her shady Uncle, the Duc de Guille, all on her tail, and her options are running out. Whispers of the Blackbirder reach her - a sinister figure who, for the right price, can promise safe passage across the border to New Mexico. Finding the Blackbirder is her only chance of escape - but what if the Blackbirder doesn't want to be found?'Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir' New York Review of Books
£9.99
Penguin Books Ltd In a Lonely Place
'Puts Chandler to shame ... Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara ParetskyAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women. Bumping into an old friend, now a detective working on the case, Dix is thrilled by closely following the progress of the police. And meeting his new neighbour, sultry and beautiful actress Laurel Gray, brings even more excitement into his life. But the strangler is still prowling the streets - and Laurel may be in more danger than she realises...In a Lonely Place was adapted for film in 1950, with Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele.
£9.99
Penguin Books Ltd In a Lonely Place
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ...Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A. after the war, looking for a new life. But the city is gripped by fear of a murderer in its midst. Dix, however, is not scared. And when he bumps into his old friend Brub, now a detective on the trail of the culprit, he is excited to follow the police's progress. A dark and terrible truth is revealed, in a noir novel like no other.
£9.99
The New York Review of Books, Inc In a Lonely Place
£13.89
Persephone Books Ltd The Expendable Man
£16.75
Penzler Publishers Ride the Pink Horse
£11.00
Penzler Publishers Dread Journey
£14.40
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Expendable Man
£14.69
Penzler Publishers The So Blue Marble
£14.70
