Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Dorothy B. Hughes

Born: August 10, 1904
Died: May 6, 1993 (aged 88)
Bio: Dorothy B. Hughes was an American crime writer and literary critic. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse.
Known for:
- The Expendable Man (1963)
- In a Lonely Place (1947)
- The so blue marble (1940)
- The blackbirder (1943)
- The Davidian report (1952)