Författare: Dorothy B. Hughes

Stöd
Gregor Runge, geboren 1981, hat am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig studiert und lebt in Berlin. Er übersetzt aus dem Englischen und hat u. a. Christopher Isherwood, Hilary Leichter und Dorothy B. Hughes ins Deutsche übertragen.




33 E-böcker av Dorothy B. Hughes

Dorothy B. Hughes: The Blackbirder
A classic World War II-era noir with a page-turning plot, a cast of colorfully sinister characters and a protagonist who is thrust into the heart of political intrigue, this captivating 1943 novel pa …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: So Blue Marble
Superb Art Deco suspense set in the glamorous world of high society New York from ’An author with a flair for terror’ The New Yorker’If you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don’t say we di …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Cross-Eyed Bear Murders
Alone in New York City, Lizanne Steffasson comes face to face with reality when her dream of acting on Broadway collapses.Now she just needs to pay her rent. So she answers an unusual ad in the paper …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Bamboo Blonde
Griselda and Con Satterlee are spending a second honeymoon in a cottage on Long Beach, and it’s not going well. To cap it all, Con picks up a blonde in the Bamboo Bar one night and walks out with her …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Fallen Sparrow
Who killed Louie Lepetino?Was it Barby, with her silvery sheen of hair, looking like a top model and acting like a woman madly in love?Or the beautiful Toni, who is hiding some strange secrets?Could …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Delicate Ape
Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room. The German girl’s mocking voice returns to his mind yet again: ’More melodrama, Piers?’ Yes: this …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Johnnie
Private First Class Johnnie Brown is on a break in New York, with just two days to spend however he likes before shipping out to fight the Nazis. All he wants to do is ride the subway, and while his …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Dread Journey
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 …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Ride the Pink Horse
’Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell, and she’s never done it better’ San Francisco Chronicle’An excellent novel . . . A sympathetic study of the development of a c …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Candy Kid
Jose Aragon is a ranch hand between jobs. Looking and smelling just like a piece of border-town trash, he’s hoping the Chenoweth Hotel, El Paso, will let him in for a much-needed shower, a room and a …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Davidian Report
One of them is the link to Davidian.One of them is holding out . . .Steve Wintress’s flight to Los Angeles is forced down in bad weather, and he shares a car into town with three fellow travellers: a …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: In a Lonely Place
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Dorothy B. Hughes: In a Lonely Place
’The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily Telegraph Los Angeles, the late 1940’s. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night …Dix S …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Expendable Man
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Dorothy B Hughes: Blackbirder
Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with – this classic noir will have you gripped from start to finish Julie Guilles is in trouble. She’s fled her home in Occupied Franc …
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€8.99
Dorothy B. Hughes: Cross-Eyed Bear Murders
Alone in New York City, a young actress becomes entangled in an international caper Lizanne Steffasson used to dream of life on the Broadway stage—that is, until she came crashing down to Earth …
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€2.56
Dorothy B. Hughes: So Blue Marble
A “delightful . . . nonstop action” thriller from the author of In a Lonely Place—“readers new to this forgotten classic are in for a treat” (Publishers Weekly …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Ride the Pink Horse
During the annual Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico town in this “extraordinary” crime novel (The New Yorker). It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New M …
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€2.55
Dorothy B. Hughes: Johnnie
Lost in New York, a GI stumbles upon a nest of peculiar Germans Private First Class Johnnie Brown has only two days to spend in New York before he ships out to fight the Nazis. While his fellow soldi …
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€12.83
Dorothy B. Hughes: Fallen Sparrow
An escapee from a Spanish prison hunts for his best friend’s killer in New York For more than a year, Kit Mc Kittrick languishes in a Fascist prison, his days spent in darkness and his nights t …
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€12.67
Dorothy B. Hughes: Dread Journey
A starlet on a transcontinental train fears her director may be trying to kill her in this novel by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Dorothy B. Hughes. Four years after she arrived in Los Ange …
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€12.80
Dorothy B. Hughes: Delicate Ape
To prevent another war, a diplomat hides from enemies of peace Twelve years after the Second World War ended, America’s war efforts have been replaced by those of the Peace Department, whose chief re …
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€11.55
Dorothy B. Hughes: Candy Kid
In El Paso, a ranch hand falls for a dangerous gringa Jose Aragon looks like a cowboy and, to his disgust, smells like one too. In El Paso between jobs, he’s standing outside the Chenoweth Hote …
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€12.74
Dorothy B. Hughes: Davidian Report
To stop a Communist plot, a secretive man searches Los Angeles for a confidential report When bad weather forces his flight to Los Angeles to land outside of town, Steve Wintress agrees to share a ca …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Scarlet Imperial
Handed a mysterious package, a woman finds herself caught in a deadly game Her name is not Eliza Williams. A fashionable young woman with a taste for adventurous men, she made the mistake of falling …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Bamboo Blonde
On their second honeymoon, a woman’s husband is arrested for murder Griselda Satterlee is beginning to regret her second marriage to Con. Their  honeymoon was supposed to be joyous, romant …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Blackbirder
A suspenseful World War II–era novel from “the world’s finest female noir writer . . . [featuring] a resourceful spy heroine” (Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Review …
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€12.85
Dorothy B. Hughes: The Bamboo Blonde
When Con Satterlee picked up the half-intoxicated blonde in the Bamboo Bar, Griselda was annoyed. When he walked out with the blonde, leaving Griselda flat, she was furious. She was frightened, too, …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: Ein einsamer Ort
Die Wiederentdeckung im Spannungsgenre: Ein Meilenstein in der Geschichte der Kriminalliteratur Los Angeles in den späten 1940ern: Der ehemalige Jagdflieger Dix Steele streift durch die Stadt, vorzug …
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Janice Law & Aeryn Rudel: Black Cat Weekly #131
   This issue, we have a pair of original tales—Aeryn Rudel’s “The Past, History” (which served double-duty as both science fiction and a crime story, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Mich …
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Robert Jeschonek & Shannon Taft: Black Cat Weekly
Another great selection of mysteries and science fiction by great modern and classic authors. Here are 8 short stories and 2 novels: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “Ear Worm, ” by Robert Jeschonek …
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Dorothy B. Hughes: En un lugar solitario
Los Ángeles de finales de los años cuarenta es una ciudad de promesas y prosperidad, excepto para el expiloto de aviones de combate Dix Steele, cuya existencia es un oasis de tedio en comparación …
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