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   • Hughes' masterpiece was fresh, feminist, and ahead of its time. It's also extraordinarily chilling. 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.

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   • It is all about the killer in Hughes' book. When women are murdered it is about the killer, nothing they did. I think that's what I liked about this book the most. It is his world, to him, but he doesn't own it, doesn't own anyone else. Dorothy B. Hughes’ In a Lonely Place was first published in 1947.

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   • Philip Morris Playhouse presented In a Lonely Place March 16, 1952. Joseph Cotten and University of Kansas student Mary Lou Jukes co-starred in the 30-minute adaptation. Suspense presented In a Lonely Place March 6, 1948. Robert Montgomery and Lurene Tuttle starred in a one-hour adaptation of the full plot.

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   • Suspense presented In a Lonely Place March 6, 1948. Robert Montgomery and Lurene Tuttle starred in a one-hour adaptation of the full plot. ^ Black, David A., 1999, Law in Film, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-06765-7.

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   In a Lonely Place is a 1947 novel by mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes. Nicholas Ray directed a classic film noir under the same title, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, in 1950.

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   Sep 15, 2023 · 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.

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   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.

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   Aug 30, 2017 · The following is from Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel, In a Lonely Place. Newly reissued by NYRB, this 1947 novel is a Los Angeles noir with a forward-looking, feminist twist and the inspiration behind Nicholas Ray's classic film of the same name.

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   Plot Summary. Shortly after the end of World War II, Dix Steele comes to Los Angeles under the guise of writing a crime novel. He lives in the apartment of and uses the credit of one of his wealthy college buddies who is presumably away in Rio (we later learn that Dix has killed him).

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   In a Lonely Place is one of Dorothy B. Hughes’ most popular hardboiled mystery novels. Known for her ability to create terror within the pages of her novels, In a Lonely Place does not disappoint 3.

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   Apr 16, 2022 · Originally published in 1947, In a Lonely Place is set in Los Angeles just after World War II. Dix Steele, who had served as a fighter pilot in the Air Force, is staying in an apartment belonging to an old acquaintance, Mel Terriss, who has gone to Rio for a while.