"Reading Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel ' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous . Within its s, its -scented shadows, you feel as though you’ve discovered a delicious and dark secret, a tantalizing page-turner with sneakily subversive undercurrents. While only intermittently in print for much of the last half century, its influence on crime fiction is unsung yet inescapable. From Patricia Highsmith and Jim Thompson to Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Harris, nearly every “” tale of the last seventy years bears its imprint—both in terms of its sleek, relentless style and its claustrophobic “mind of the criminal” perspective. But its larger influence derives from Hughes’s uncanny grasp of the connection between violence and misogyny and an embattled masculinity. And its importance extends beyond form or genre and into cultural mythos: the birth of ."
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Dorothy B. Hughes
(née Dorothy Belle Flanagan; August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993) was an American , literary critic, poet, and biographer of . Her poetry collection Dark Certainty (published in 1931) won the 1930 from . The successful films ' (1947) and ' (1950) were based on novels she published in 1946 and 1947, respectively. For her literary criticism she received two s: one in 1951 and another in 1976. In 1978 she was honored (along with Daphne du Maurier and ) with the Grand Master Awar
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