Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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)







