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Re: RARA-AVIS: Dorothy B. Hughes - recommendation
Richard King wrote:
>Has anyone ever read anything by Dorothy B. Hughes?
She is perhaps my favourite female mystery writer and
"In a Lonely Place" is one of my all-time favourites which I re-read
several times.
The book did not only inspire Nicholas Ray to shoot the film with
the same title but also the pop-group The Smithereen to
use it as a song about lost love (nearly forty years after the
publication of the original novel).
Although the film has not much to do with the book, it is IMHO the
most "noir" Bogart film showing him in an atypical and more fragil
role than in his other mystery films.
BTW, a comparison between the cover of the 1947 Pocket Book edition
and the 1990 No Exit Press edition of the book shows the decline of
cover art during the last decades.
Having enjoyed "In a Lonely Place" and "Ride the Pink Horse" so much,
I am sorry to say that I was disappointed by some of her earlier
books like "The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders" which stroke me as too
unrealistic.
Best regards
Frank Glenewinkel
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Frank Glenewinkel
frank.glenewinkel@uni-koeln.de (preferred)
glenewin@mzdmza.zdv.uni.mainz.de
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