In a Lonely Place (Femmes Fatales)

Type

Book

Authors

Hughes, Dorothy B.

ISBN 10

1558614559

ISBN 13

9781558614550

Tags

Performing Arts, Movies, Hard-Boiled, Women Sleuths, Serial murderers, Young women--Crimes against, California--Los Angeles, Drifters, Actresses, Strangling

Abstract

One of the best portraits of American postwar machismo gone mad

Description

"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 -- Ưbus 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 ..."--

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Fiction
Mystery fiction
Noir fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dorothy B Hughes
ISBN: 1558614559 9781558614550
OCLC Number: 807277768
Description: 224 pages ; 19 cm.
Series Title: Femmes fatales : women write pulp.
Responsibility: Dorothy B. Hughes ; afterword by Lisa Maria Hogeland.

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