The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes

The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes

It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man. And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later?

Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.

Dorothy B. is a member of the Dorothy B. Hughes was a mystery writer, award-winning poet, and literary critic who lived from 1904 until 1993. In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse are two of her fourteen works, the most well-known of which are In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse. Both were adapted into films that were well-received. Her writing influenced many other mystery writers in the postwar era, and the films she inspired are still considered some of the best in the genre.

She influenced the next two generations of female mystery authors in particular. She mostly stopped writing fiction in the early 1950s, preferring to concentrate on critique. She won an Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism after reviewing mysteries for the Los Angeles Times, New York Herald Tribune, and other publications. The Grand Master Award for literary merit was given to her by the Mystery Writers of America in 1978.

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ISBN 13	9781590174951
ISBN 10	159017495X
Title	The Expendable Man
Author	Dorothy B Hughes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2012-07-03
Number of pages	264
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