"“We didn’t know it was only the first then. It was a girl down on . She was a nice enough kid for the life she lived, I guess. Danced in a bump-and-grind house down there. We found her in an alley. Strangled.: He picked up his glass, emptied it. “No clues. Nothing. …”"
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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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