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7,169 ratings1,029 reviews. 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 named 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 ...
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Sep 15, 2023 · September 15, 2023 By Laura Picklesimer. Via Unnamed Press. Published in 1947, Dorothy Hughes’ noir novel In a Lonely Place is a masterpiece of crime fiction whose influence has extended to both books and films, including a 1950 movie adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart. The story follows a mercurial and mysterious lead, Dix Steele, who is ...
Oct 3, 2023 · Prolific noir writer Dorothy B. Hughes has 14 novels to her name, but, for its daring first-person narrative told from the perspective of a serial killer, In a Lonely Place is perhaps her most ...
Aug 22, 2017 · The 1950 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame was adapted from a lesser-known 1947 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, who belongs in the crime-writing pantheon. The novel's just been re ...
by Dorothy B. Hughes, afterword by Megan Abbott. $14.95. American Literature Available as E-Book Suspense & Crime. Format. Paperback Ebook. Quantity. Add to cart. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power ...
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In post World War II Los Angeles, Dix Steele is an ex-airman who roams the city at night. He offers to help a police detective friend, Brub, solve the case of a serial killer —risking revealing that he himself has strangled women on a monthly basis since arriving in LA. Eventually, actress Laurel Gray and Brub's wife Sylvia become suspicious ...
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Aug 15, 2017 · —John Powers, NPR “ In a Lonely Place blasted my mind open to new ways of reading.” —Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Review of Books “To try and re-create the thrill of World War II combat, Dix Steele takes to wandering the streets of Los Angeles at night—and committing serial murder.
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