Ask a Bookseller: Dorothy Hughes’ classic noir fiction
Sarah Brown of Zenith Bookstore in Duluth recommends that fans of literary fiction, mystery, and noir search out the work of Dorothy Hughes, whose crime novels were mostly published in the 1940s and early 50s. After falling out of print, her work has seen a resurgence in recent years.Hughes published 14 crime and detective novels, and she also worked as a professional crime-fiction reviewer, so she knew her genre well. Her work teems with unreliable narrators, settings that feel like characters, and surprising plot twists--key elements of modern mysteries now. Three of Hughes' novels were…
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