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  1. May 6, 2010 · Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-93) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived most of her life in New Mexico. A journalist and a poet, she began publishing hard-boiled crime novels in 1940, three of which were made into successful films: The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and In a Lonely Place (1950).

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  2. Apr 11, 2024 · “Death in a Lonely Place”, by Stig Abell is the second book in the Little Sky series (following “Death Under a Little Sky”), and we pick up the story around 18 months on from the events of that novel. Jake is now well established in his life at his amazing property of Little Sky — complete with his own woods, lake and even a sauna!

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  3. His seminal volume In a Lonely Place collects eight of his best tales, including "In the Pines," a classic ghost story evocatively set in the Tennessee woods, "Beyond Any Measure," an original take on the vampire story, "River of Night's Dreaming," a surreal and nightmarish masterpiece inspired by The King in Yellow, and the author's most famous tale, "Sticks," a disturbing story thought by ...

  4. Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.

  5. In a Lonely Place: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid. A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him.

  6. 6 days ago · “Death in a Lonely Place” is the second novel in the Jake Jackson police procedural series by Stig Abell. In “Place”, Jake is now a permanent resident in the small idyllic country village of Caelum Parvum, spending time caring for his chickens and living off the grid in the small home named Little Sky while maintaining a relationship with local vet, Livia.

  7. Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-93) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived most of her life in New Mexico. A journalist and a poet, she began publishing hard-boiled crime novels in 1940, three of which were made into successful films: The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and In a Lonely Place (1950).

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