In a Lonely Place

Resumen del libro

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively names Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially since his best friend is on the force, but when he meets the luscious Laurel Gray--a femme fatale with brains--something begins to crack. The basis for extraordinary performances by Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in the 1950 film version of the book, "In a Lonely Place" tightens the suspence with taut, hard-boiled prose and stunningly undoes the convential noir plot.

Biografía del autor

Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993) nacio en Kansas, Misuri. Hizo la carrera de periodismo. En 1931, publico su libro de poemas Dark Certainty. Al siguiente an o se caso , y no volveri a a publicar hasta 1940, con la novela negra The So Blue Marble. Entre 1940 y 1952 publico doce novelas, entre las que cabe destacar The Cross-Eyed Bear y Persecucio n en la noche. Durante cuatro de cadas trabajo como cri tica de literatura polici aca para The Albuquerque Tribune. En 1963 aparecio The Expendable Man, su u ltima novela.