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Dread Journey

Dorothy B. Hughes
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781471917370
  • Weight: 41g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Apr 2015
  • Publisher: The Murder Room
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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One-way ticket to death . . .?

'Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara Paretsky

'The tension and terror of Dread Journey are such that few will be able to lay the book down unfinished' New York Times

'Cornell Woolrich meets Agatha Christie' Publishers Weekly

'Superbly done' Washington Post

In the four years since she arrived in Los Angeles, Kitten Agnew has become a star. Not all by herself, of course; though beautiful and talented, Kitten would be lost without her director, the acclaimed and powerful Vivien Spender.

But Spender is a dangerous man. Kit knows that, and has heard all the stories - of discarded stars that have ended up in a chorus line, or a sanatorium, or worse.

Spender knows that Kit knows, and wouldn't dare destroy her glittering career. But he may be willing to kill her . . .

On a train from LA to Chicago, Kit makes a discovery that could have her fighting not just for her career, but for her life.
About Dorothy B. Hughes
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.

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