(1904–1993)
Dorothy B. Hughes is the author of fourteen noir novels with detective or crime plots. She received a thorough education in journalism at several universities, including Columbia University, which prepared her for her writing career and she also studied the genre of detective fiction theoretically. In her scholarly works, she has paid tribute to one of her alma maters, the University of New Mexico, and to an older and meritorious colleague, Erle Stanley Gardner, father of the immortal Perry Mason. She received the first of many awards for her first book of poetry, the aptly titled Dark Certainty (1931). The appeal of her work, written in the style of noir or in the hardboiled school style, is evidenced by the fact, that tree of her fourteen novels were made into films at the height of her literary career.
The Czech reader has not yet had the opportunity to get acquainted with the author’s work via translation. In a Lonely Place comes as the author’s first novel published in Czech language.
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