Dorothy B Hughes grew up in Kansas City. After university she worked in journalism and wrote a prize-winning book of poems. Her first thriller was published to great acclaim in 1940, with thirteen others appearing over the next ten years. She lived most of her adult life in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Genres: Mystery
Novels
So Blue Marble (1940)
The Bamboo Blonde (1941)
The Fallen Sparrow (1942)
The Blackbirder (1943)
Johnnie (1944)
The Delicate Ape (1945)
Dread Journey (1946)
Ride the Pink Horse (1946)
The Scarlet Imperial (1946)
aka Kiss for a Killer
In a Lonely Place (1947)
The Big Barbecue (1949)
The Candy Kid (1950)
The Davidian Report (1952)
aka The Body on the Bench
The Expendable Man (1963)
Dark certainty (1971)
The Bamboo Blonde (1941)
The Fallen Sparrow (1942)
The Blackbirder (1943)
Johnnie (1944)
The Delicate Ape (1945)
Dread Journey (1946)
Ride the Pink Horse (1946)
The Scarlet Imperial (1946)
aka Kiss for a Killer
In a Lonely Place (1947)
The Big Barbecue (1949)
The Candy Kid (1950)
The Davidian Report (1952)
aka The Body on the Bench
The Expendable Man (1963)
Dark certainty (1971)
Collections
Series contributed to
Black Cat Weekly (with Eando Binder, Lester del Rey, James Holding, Holly Wade Matter, John Shepphird, Jerry Sohl, Cynthia Ward and Stephen Wasylyk)
26. Black Cat Weekly #26 (2022)
26. Black Cat Weekly #26 (2022)
Non fiction
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