The Blue Marble Hughes

Like the british library s range these books each feature an introduction giving some context to the work and information about the author.

The blue marble hughes.

It s thrills how will our heroine survive it s uniqueness the elimination of threat from deeply warped super rich kids and an avatar of the impending german threat. Born in kansas city she studied at columbia university and won an award from the yale series of younger poets for her first book the poetry collection dark certainty 1931. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today. All pages are intact and the cover is intact.

While different in style from her later books dorothy b. Is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today. The so blue marble by hughes dorothy b.

Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. The so blue marble 1940 was the debut novel for dorothy b. The protagonist is griselda former actress current fashion designer for the rich and famous in the glittering world of hollywood. Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble.

After writing several unsuccessful manuscripts she published the so blue marble in 1940. Hughes the so blue marble is one of six vintage titles that were chosen by otto penzler to launch his new american mystery classics range. Pages can include considerable notes in pen or highlighter but the notes cannot obscure the text. Its mystery is what s the blue marble.

Hughes s darker noir fiction that i ve read see my review of ride the pink horse the so blue marble is more lighthearted and plot driven sometimes ridiculously so. While different in style from her later books dorothy b. Hughes 1904 1993 was a mystery author and literary critic. While different in style from her later books dorothy b.

One night while returning to her ex husband s east side apartment where she is staying she is accosted by two frightening young men who demand that she give them the blue marble what follows. It is a bit thriller a bit noir and just a tad bit off the wall. As more than one reviewer here has noted there is a curiously implausible comic book like quality to the characters and storyline i half expected superman to come bursting through the wall but hughes keeps the reader engaged with so many twists and turns that this short 180 page pulp romp. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today.

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