Dorothy B. Hughes

The Bamboo Blonde

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ISBN: 978-1-4719-1729-5
EAN: 9781471917295
Produktnummer: 20265366
Verlag: Orion
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm 41 g
Reihenbandnummer: 541
Gewicht: 41

Über den Autor

Dorothy B. Hughes was an acclaimed crime novelist and literary critic, her style falling into the hard-boiled and noir genres of mystery writing. Born in Kansas City, she studied journalism at the University of Missouri, and her initial literary output consisted of collections of poetry. Hughes' first mystery novel, The So Blue Marble, was published in 1940 and was hailed as the arrival of a great new talent in the field. Her writing proved to be both critically and commercially successful, and three of her novels - The Fallen Sparrow, Ride the Pink Horse and In a Lonely Place - were made into major films. Hughes' taught, suspenseful detective novels are reminiscent of the work of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and fellow The Murder Room author Margaret Millar. In 1951, Hughes was awarded an Edgar award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism and, in 1978, she received the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America. She died in Oregon in 1993.