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  • In a Lonely Place

    by Dorothy B. Hughes, Megan Abbott ...
    A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Expendable Man

    by Dorothy B Hughes ...
    The Expendable Man is the second thriller published by Persephone Books (our first was the very successful The Blank Wall). But it is far more than a crime novel. Just as Hughes's earlier books had engaged with the political issues of the 1940s – the legacy of the Depression, and the struggles against fascism and rascism – so The Expendable Man, published in 1963 during John F. Kennedy's ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bamboo Blonde

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    On their second honeymoon, a woman's husband is arrested for murderGriselda Satterlee is beginning to regret her second marriage to Con. Their honeymoon was supposed to be joyous, romantic, and full of glamor—all of the things their first marriage wasn't—but instead they are spending it on Long Beach, a Navy town whose fleets have all shipped out to sea. The tedium of Long Beach cannot compare to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Pink Bits

    An Awkward Girl RomCom

    by JB Heller ...
    Narrated by Sofia Lette, Ben Hughes ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Awkward Girls

    Unabridged

    3 hours 18 min

    Did you know the medical term for a butt crack is intergluteal cleft?My name is Reagan, and spouting random facts like this one at inopportune moments is my affliction. I’m chronically awkward, socially inept and completely lack a filter. Believe it or not, men do not find these attractive traits.When my sexy-as-sin neighbour barges into my apartment at the arse crack of dawn, everything changes. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ride the Pink Horse

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    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 Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what's his. It's the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Bamboo Blonde

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    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, returning alone to the isolated, ramshackle beach cottage. And this was to have been their second honeymoon!Con came back rattling a handful of shells which he said he had taken from the blonde’s ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blackbirder

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    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 of Books).Julie Guilles has escaped to New York from Nazi-occupied France. But that doesn't mean she's safe. The German invasion put an end to her glamorous, sheltered life in Paris three years ago, and because she entered America ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Delicate Ape

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    To prevent another war, a diplomat hides from enemies of peaceTwelve years after the Second World War ended, America's war efforts have been replaced by those of the Peace Department, whose chief responsibility is to oversee the police force that governs Germany. On the eve of the biennial Peace Conclave in New York, rumors are swirling that the force may be withdrawn, and the Germans allowed free ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Dread Journey

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    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 Angeles, Kitten Agnew has become a star. Though beautiful and talented, she'd be nowhere without Vivien Spender: Hollywood's most acclaimed director—and its most dangerous. But Kitten knew what she was ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The So Blue Marble

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    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).At the age of twenty-four, Griselda Satterlee has already lived two lifetimes. A star of the silver screen, she gives up Hollywood after a year, and moves to New York to become a designer. While her ex-husband, Con, is out of town, she is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Johnnie

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    Lost in New York, a GI stumbles upon a nest of peculiar GermansPrivate First Class Johnnie Brown has only two days to spend in New York before he ships out to fight the Nazis. While his fellow soldiers amuse themselves at the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and the night clubs of Times Square, Johnnie has a humbler wish: to ride the subway. But no sooner has he paid his nickel than ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    Alone in New York City, a young actress becomes entangled in an international caperLizanne Steffasson used to dream of life on the Broadway stage—that is, until she came crashing down to Earth. Having decided to aim lower, she dreams simply of being able to pay her rent—which is why she responds to a strange ad in the newspaper: "Wanted: A beautiful girl. One not afraid to look on danger's bright ... Read more

    $8.69 USD