

In a Lonely Place
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Dorothy B. Hughes
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ...Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A. after the war, looking for a new life. But the city is gripped by fear of a murderer in its midst. Dix, however, is not scared. And when he bumps into his old friend Brub, now a detective on the trail of the culprit, he is excited to follow the police's progress. A dark and terrible truth is revealed, in a noir novel like no other.
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Author
Dorothy B. Hughes
Pages
192
Publisher
Penguin Books Limited
Published Date
2010-05-06
ISBN
0141957522 9780141957524
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"Felt very dated and the dialogue was a bit wooden but I enjoyed it. Nice, seeing the story from the bad guy's point of view."
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John Woakes