The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes, Golden Apple Publishers, New York, 1984, 181 pp..
Golden Apple 19764-9. January 1984. 1st printing.
A square, bright and tight copy. Pages are tanned. Interior of covers are edge browned. Condition - Near Fine.
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Dorothy B Hughes
(Dorothy Belle Flanagan Hughes)
(1904 - 1993)
Dorothy B Hughes grew up in Kansas City. After university she worked in journalism and wrote a prize-winning book of poems. Her first thriller was published to great acclaim in 1940, with thirteen others appearing over the next ten years. She lived most of her adult life in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A 1947 classic that takes us inside the mind of a male serial killer. Author Dorothy B. Hughes explores the ana-tomy of American -misogyny and -accomplishes a mystery writing tour de force by depicting his eventual -capture-by two daring and powerful women-from his point of view. The characters of Dix Steele and Laurel Grey, the glamorous actress he falls for but can't hold on to, were so well drawn that they became the basis for extraordinary performances by Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in the 1950 film version of the book, which also reflects the suspense and hard-boiled edginess of Hughes's -writing.
Called "an author with a flair for terror" by The New Yorker, Hughes was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1978.