Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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)