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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993.     Subjects     Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.     Serial murderers -- Fiction.     Drifters -- Fiction.     Nineteen forties -- Fiction.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993.       by title:      In a lonely place / ...       by call number:      FICTION HUG     Search the Web     Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993.     Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.     Serial murderers -- Fiction.     Drifters -- Fiction.     Nineteen forties -- Fiction.     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

In a lonely place / Dorothy B. Hughes ; afterword by Megan Abbott. by Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993. New York Review Books, 2017. Call #: FICTION HUG Subjects Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.   Serial murderers -- Fiction.   Drifters -- Fiction.   Nineteen forties -- Fiction.   Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction. Series New York Review Books classics ISBN:  9781681371474 (trade pbk.) Description:  206 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  Originally published 1947. Summary:  "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 and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.' He prowls the foggy city night --bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out -- seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who's been terrorizing the women of the city for months ..."--Publisher. Genre:  Mystery fiction. Noir fiction. Hard-boiled detective fiction. Other authors:  Abbott, Megan E., 1971- Holds:  3   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Home Delivery - HN Adult Mystery Fiction FICTION HUG Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked out Aug 30, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Mystery Fiction FICTION HUG Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked out Oct 30, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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