Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)